Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Hither with tottering gait is wont to come;
  2. And, wrinkled hands upraising to the stars,
  3. Begs that she'll never fail a yard to find;
  4. And, as yester'een she prayed ere daylight fled