Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Add that a godhead terrible of staff
  2. Hewed me the rustic's rude unartful hand
  3. And made me vilest of all deities,
  4. Invoked as wooden guardian of the gourds.
  5. And more, for shameless note to me was 'signed
  6. With lustful nerve a pyramid distent,
  7. Whereto a damsel (whom well nigh I'd named)
  8. Is with her fornicator wont to come