Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Forthright he hied him, duty duly done.
  2. Hereat a neighbour's bitch incontinent comes--
  3. Led by the savour of the smoke, I ween--
  4. And gobbling all that offering to my yard
  5. Atones by lusting through the livelong night.
  6. But you, be wary of this place, nor give