Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. My form Praxiteles nor Scopas hewed;
  2. To me no Phidian handwork finish gave;
  3. But me a bailiff hacked from shapeless log,
  4. And quoth my maker, 'Thou Priapus be!'
  5. Yet on me gazing forthright gigglest thou