Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. How for losing the sweets grieve I thou quickly shalt learn.
  1. Of vergers diligent guard (Priapus!), threat
  2. These robbing loons with thy red amulet.
  1. Not to be moved am I; shouldst thou, Thief, venture on thieving
  2. These big apples, to thee pommes de bragues I will give.
  1. Why, O ye pathic girls, with sidelong oglings observe me?
  2. Never this mentule of mine riseth erect from my groin.
  3. Yet though lifeless now and a pole to no one of service,