Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. The way is closèd nor prone-fallen thief
  2. Can with his backside expiate his crime.
  3. Thus I who erstwhile ever, ever and aye
  4. Buttocks of plundering wights was wont to cleave,
  5. For many a night and day in idlesse stand.
  6. I also, suffering pains enough and more,