Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. 'Bear it afar (cried I) and let it lurk
  2. Beneath thy tattered robe and tawny stole;
  3. (Fen as 'tis ever wont); and dread the fight
  4. Of meagre jaws which ope with such a gape--
  5. By hairy nostrils capped and eminent nose--