Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. I blushed to offer for a cure my cock
  2. And prayed--'Priapus, an thou heal the part,
  3. O Sire, whose very counterpart thou seem'st
  4. And without hacking make it whole again,
  5. One linmed on tablet shall to thee be given
  6. Like-sized, like-coloured and alike of shape.'
  7. The God to promise deigning wagged his yard,
  8. By way of nod divine, and did my bede.
  1. Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me,
  2. Since my 'nature' alway openly showeth to fight;
  3. Fain would I pedicate thee who'rt Fain to plunder my apples;
  4. An my want thou shalt grant, eke shall be granted thy want.
  1. Form-charms in Mercury have might to please;
  2. Form in Apollo is conspicuous charm;
  3. Formose in picture is Lyaeus limned