Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. He that aye chaunted his dirge of distress to the lyre Pelethronian,
  2. Lyre of the stiff taut string, stiffer the string of himself.
  3. Ilias, noble poem, was gotten and born of such direful
  4. Ire, of that Sacred Song such was original cause.