Priapeia

Priaepia

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

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