Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. For with a leafy branch hardly that yard could be dad.
  2. Yet was he hasting, his way to regain his little old woman:
  3. Thy coynte (Penelope!) claiming his every thought;
  4. Thou who bidest so chaste with mind ever set upon banquets
  5. And with a futtering crew alway thy palace was filled:
  6. Then that thou learn of these which were most potent of swiving,