Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Can with his backside expiate his crime.
  2. Thus I who erstwhile ever, ever and aye
  3. Buttocks of plundering wights was wont to cleave,
  4. For many a night and day in idlesse stand.
  5. I also, suffering pains enough and more,
  6. Flow off in semen and a lecher whiles
  7. Unlive my life-tide. Who could ever think
  8. From lute the lutanist should cut him clear?
  9. But you, ereeld's marasmus do me dead,
  10. Desist, I pray you from vain diligence,
  11. Nor hang a buckle on Priapus' yard.