Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Here' Here! nor dare expect (whoe'er thou be)
  2. To 'scape the Lecher God's fane venerand;
  3. And, if a damsel lay the night with thee,
  4. From this my presence fear not to be bann'd
  5. Fen as the sterner Gods of Heaven command.
  6. The Ne'er-do-wells and paltry gods are we