Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Take in good part--such is the prayer I pray.
  1. Darkly might I to thee say: Oh give me for ever and ever
  2. What thou may'st constantly give while of it nothing be lost:
  3. Give me what vainly thou'lt long to bestow in the days that are coming
  4. When that invidious beard either soft cheek shall invade;
  5. What unto Jove gave he who, borne by the worshipful flyer,
  6. Mixes the gratefullest cups, ever his leman's delight;
  7. What on the primal night maid gives to her love-longing bridegroom
  8. Dreading ineptly the hurt dealt to a different part.