Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. For heart and senses did forbid me quite
  2. To set the choir Pïérian, chaste and fair,
  3. Before Priapus' tool--such deed to dare.
  4. Then whatsoe'er I wrote when idly gay,