Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Theseus found lying in the fosse a-cold!)
  2. Hither with tottering gait is wont to come;
  3. And, wrinkled hands upraising to the stars,
  4. Begs that she'll never fail a yard to find;
  5. And, as yester'een she prayed ere daylight fled
  6. One of three teeth she happened out to crache.
  7. 'Bear it afar (cried I) and let it lurk
  8. Beneath thy tattered robe and tawny stole;
  9. (Fen as 'tis ever wont); and dread the fight
  10. Of meagre jaws which ope with such a gape--