Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Violets pale are mine by side of the poppy-head pallid;
- With the dull yellow gourd and apples sweetest of savour;
- Lastly the blushing grape disposed in shade of the vine-tree.
- Anon mine altar (this same) with blood (but you will be silent!)
- Bearded kid and anon some horny-hoofed nanny shall sprinkle.
- Wherefore Priapus is bound to requite such honours by service,