Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Ennéan matrons unto Ceres flock,
  2. To the raped Goddess oystery Cyzicus;
  3. Gnidos and Paphos lovely Venus hail
  4. While mortals dedicate Lampsacus to thee.
  1. Though I be agèd now, though head and chin
  2. Now show them hoary-hue'd with grizzling hair,
  3. Still can I perforate those caught by me,
  4. Tithonus, Priam, Nestor--every one.
  5. You see how mightily my rage ye rouse
  6. Who hem me ever with a bullfinch hedge