Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. 'Tis not enough that days in labour spent
  2. Sleepless I lengthen through the nights as long.
  3. Add that a godhead terrible of staff
  4. Hewed me the rustic's rude unartful hand
  5. And made me vilest of all deities,
  6. Invoked as wooden guardian of the gourds.