Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Thou too dost mock me, Thief! and the infamous
  2. Finger dost point when menacèd by me!
  3. Ah hapless I, that should be only wood
  4. What makes me ever formidable seem!
  5. Yet will I charge my garden's lustful lord
  6. For me deign robber-folk to irrumate.
  1. A chough, a caries, an eld-worn grave,
  2. By lapse of crowding centuries rotten grown,
  3. Who as a wetnurse haply may have fed
  4. Tithonus, Priam, Nestor, and perchance
  5. When they were little lads was agèd crone,
  6. Sues me for swiver she may never lack!