Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. (You ask) the member which begets us all?
  2. Whenas by accident my yard was hurt
  3. And I (unhappy!) feared the surgeon's hand
  4. To such legitimate almighty gods--
  5. Phoebus for instance take or Phoebus' son--
  6. I blushed to offer for a cure my cock
  7. And prayed--'Priapus, an thou heal the part,