Priapeia

Priaepia

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

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