Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Tho' see you drenchèd wet that part of me
  2. Whereby Priapus I am signified;
  3. Nor dew (believe me!) 'twas nor hoary frost,
  4. But whatso gusheth of its own accord
  5. When I bethink me of a pathic god.
  1. Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple
  2. Verse of a strain jocose rather than modest and chaste,
  3. Cease to be hurt by the song obscene, for verily ne'er was