Priapeia

Priaepia

by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers

  1. Here of the bailiff thou see'st noble and notable work;
  2. For that the wealthiest swain who owns the lands Caërétan
  3. (Hilarus) holds these hills sloping in sunniest folds.
  4. See with my well-shaped face how seem I not to be wooden,
  5. Nor do I bear belly-tools fitted for kitchen or fire:
  6. Nay; my perpetual yard of cypress perishing never