Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. 'What! for a cabbage all this? This for a cabbage I bear?'
  1. This staff of office cut from tree as 'tis,
  2. No more with leafage green for aye to bloom;
  3. Staff by the pathic damsels fondly loved,
  4. Which e'en the kings delight in hand to hold
  5. And oft by noble catamites bekissed--
  6. This staff in robbers' vitals deep shall plunge
  7. Up to its bushy base and bag of balls.