Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Wherefore prays she that aye she please her mob of admirers;
  2. Let one and all stand stiff after the wont of her god.
  1. Thou, of unrighteous thought, that hardly canst
  2. Refrain from robbing this my garden-plot,
  3. With foot-long fascinum shalt bulghar'd be:
  4. Yet if so mighty grievous punishment
  5. Profit thee naught, at higher stead I'll strike.
  1. Priapus! perish I an words obscene