Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. And quoth my maker, 'Thou Priapus be!'
  2. Yet on me gazing forthright gigglest thou
  3. And holdest funny matter to deride
  4. The pillar perking from the groin of me.
  1. 'Ware of my catching! If caught, with rod I never will harm thee
  2. Nor to thee deal sore wound using my sickle that curves.
  3. Pierced with a foot-long pole thy skin shall be stretched in such fashion