Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. To Juno Samos and to Dis Mykenae;
  2. While Taenarus' billowy seas confess the King.
  3. Pallas preserveth the Cecropian towers;
  4. Pythius Delphos, navel of the world;
  5. Delia the Cretan Isle and Cynthian hills;
  6. Faunus hath Maenalos and Arcadian groves.
  7. Rhodos is happy protégé of Sol;
  8. Gades and Tibur dank of Hercules;
  9. Snowy Cyllene of the swift-paced God
  10. And seething Lemnos of the limping Sire;
  11. Ennéan matrons unto Ceres flock,
  12. To the raped Goddess oystery Cyzicus;
  13. Gnidos and Paphos lovely Venus hail
  14. 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