Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Slain for thy victim 's the pig bred in the stye's tepid reek.
  2. But, an thy will be not to murther the herd, O Priapus,
  3. Grant of thy grace yon gate into the garden be shut.
  1. Thou, who lest manly mark thy glances meet,
  2. Hence fain avertest thee as suits the pure;
  3. No wonder 'twere if that to see thou fear'st