Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Yet will I charge my garden's lustful lord
  2. 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