Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. All the conditions (they say) Priapus made with the youngling
  2. Written in verses twain mortals hereunder can read:
  3. 'Whatso my garden contains to thee shall be lawfullest plunder
  4. If unto us thou give whatso thy garden contains.'
  1. Though I be wooden Priapus (as thou see'st),
  2. With wooden sickle and a prickle of wood,
  3. Yet will I seize thee, girl! and hold thee seized
  4. And This, however gross, withouten fraud
  5. Stiffer than lyre-string or than twisted rope
  6. I'll thrust and bury to thy seventh rib.