Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. The Guard of Lemnos moves unequal steps;
  2. Ever untrimmed is Aesculapius' beard;
  3. None hath a broader breast than bully Mars;
  4. But, an Priapus' rank 'mid these remain,
  5. There be no better-membered deity.
  1. Why on memorial tablet do they limn
  2. (You ask) the member which begets us all?
  3. Whenas by accident my yard was hurt
  4. And I (unhappy!) feared the surgeon's hand
  5. To such legitimate almighty gods--
  6. Phoebus for instance take or Phoebus' son--
  7. I blushed to offer for a cure my cock