Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Fair as the fruits that enfam'd Garths of the Hesperid maids;
  2. Fen as one fancies the lot which, pacing her patrial vergers,
  3. Nausicaä full oft bare in her well-fillèd lap;
  4. Sweet as the pome whereon Acontius limnèd the letters
  5. Which being read his Fair pledged to her love-longing swain;
  6. Such be the fruits that youth who owneth the flourishing fieldlet