Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. O Sire, whose very counterpart thou seem'st
  2. And without hacking make it whole again,
  3. One linmed on tablet shall to thee be given
  4. Like-sized, like-coloured and alike of shape.'
  5. The God to promise deigning wagged his yard,
  6. By way of nod divine, and did my bede.
  1. Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me,