Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. 'Whatso my garden contains to thee shall be lawfullest plunder
  2. 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