Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. And glaucous olive-tree in bitter cold.
  2. The dainty she-goat from my pasture bears
  3. Her milk-distended udders to the town:
  4. Out of my sheep-cotes ta'en the fatted lamb
  5. Sends home with silver right-hand heavily charged;
  6. And, while its mother lows, the tender calf