Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. For many a night and day in idlesse stand.
  2. I also, suffering pains enough and more,
  3. Flow off in semen and a lecher whiles
  4. Unlive my life-tide. Who could ever think
  5. From lute the lutanist should cut him clear?
  6. But you, ereeld's marasmus do me dead,