Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. I also, suffering pains enough and more,
  2. Flow off in semen and a lecher whiles
  3. Unlive my life-tide. Who could ever think
  4. From lute the lutanist should cut him clear?
  5. But you, ereeld's marasmus do me dead,
  6. Desist, I pray you from vain diligence,
  7. Nor hang a buckle on Priapus' yard.
  1. The Gods and Goddesses deny thy teeth