Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. The Ne'er-do-wells and paltry gods are we
  2. Of rural worship and 'spite modesty
  3. Aye under Jove with balls a-bare we stand:
  4. Then enter whoso hither entry seek
  5. Reckless of bawdy-house's blackened reek!
  1. Charged to my charge the fieldlet who shall dare