Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Like-sized, like-coloured and alike of shape.'
- The God to promise deigning wagged his yard,
- By way of nod divine, and did my bede.
- Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me,
- Since my 'nature' alway openly showeth to fight;