Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Sister to Cumae's Sibyl seemeth me;
  2. Equal to thee whom, to his home returned,
  3. Theseus found lying in the fosse a-cold!)
  4. Hither with tottering gait is wont to come;
  5. And, wrinkled hands upraising to the stars,
  6. Begs that she'll never fail a yard to find;
  7. And, as yester'een she prayed ere daylight fled