Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Protect, repelling thieves' rapacious hands.
  2. In spring with vari-coloured wreaths I'm crown'd,
  3. In fervid summer with the glowing grain,
  4. Then with green vine-shoot and the luscious bunch,