Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. He of the poor hut lord and his son, the pair of them peasants:
  2. This with assiduous toil aye works the thicketty herbage
  3. And the coarse water-grass to clear afar from my chapel:
  4. That with his open hand ever brings me offerings humble.
  5. Hung up in honour mine are flowery firstlings of spring-tide,
  6. Wreaths with their ears still soft the tender stalklets a-crowning;