Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Give me what vainly thou'lt long to bestow in the days that are coming
  2. When that invidious beard either soft cheek shall invade;
  3. What unto Jove gave he who, borne by the worshipful flyer,
  4. Mixes the gratefullest cups, ever his leman's delight;
  5. What on the primal night maid gives to her love-longing bridegroom
  6. Dreading ineptly the hurt dealt to a different part.