Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. And I (unhappy!) feared the surgeon's hand
  2. To such legitimate almighty gods--
  3. Phoebus for instance take or Phoebus' son--
  4. I blushed to offer for a cure my cock
  5. And prayed--'Priapus, an thou heal the part,
  6. O Sire, whose very counterpart thou seem'st
  7. And without hacking make it whole again,
  8. One linmed on tablet shall to thee be given
  9. Like-sized, like-coloured and alike of shape.'
  10. The God to promise deigning wagged his yard,