Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. 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
  4. Wont our mentule to wear eyebrow up-drawn in surprise.
  1. A certain person, an thou please (Priapus!),
  2. Plays me, a girl with piles full many piled;
  3. And nor she gives me nor denies her gift,