Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. This fieldlet, leftwards as thy glances fall,
  2. And my lord's cottage with his pauper garth
  3. Protect, repelling thieves' rapacious hands.
  4. In spring with vari-coloured wreaths I'm crown'd,
  5. In fervid summer with the glowing grain,
  6. Then with green vine-shoot and the luscious bunch,