Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. But a distended yard makes me an object of awe.
  1. Wealth is my loss! Do thou vouchsafe lend aid to my prayer,
  2. Nor, by thy signal shown, me, O Priapus, betray:
  3. Whatso before thee I laid, of home-grown apples the firstlings,
  4. (Prithee, be pleased not to tell!) from Via Sacra be ta'en.
  1. An fro' me woman shall thieve or plunder me man or a man-child,