Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Never delighted, of song never a subject had he;
  2. But for the Tantalid's tool being known to Fame and well noted
  3. Old man Chryses had naught left him for making his moan.
  4. This did his mate dispoil of a fond affectionate mistress
  5. And of a prize not his plunderèd Aeacides,
  6. He that aye chaunted his dirge of distress to the lyre Pelethronian,