Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. We all show special notes of bodily shape:
  2. Long-haired is Phoebus, arm-strong Hercules,
  3. And tender Bacchus owneth virginal form;
  4. Pallas hath grey-blue eyes, Venus a cast;
  5. Th' Arcadian Fauns thou seest bloody-browed