Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Lyre of the stiff taut string, stiffer the string of himself.
  2. Ilias, noble poem, was gotten and born of such direful
  3. Ire, of that Sacred Song such was original cause.
  4. Matter of different kind was the wander of crafty Ulysses:
  5. An thou would verity know Love too was motor of this.
  6. Hence does he gather the root whence springs that aureate blossom