Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Freely of lovely form the lack I own;
  2. Yet is our mentule a resplendent gem;
  3. And this to th'erst-named gods shall aye prefer
  4. The damsel dowered with no fatuous coynte.
  1. Yon Telethusa befamèd amid the damsels Suburran
  2. (Who by her gains I hold freedwoman now is become)
  3. Girds with a gilded crown, O Holy! thine inguinal organ,