Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Unlive my life-tide. Who could ever think
  2. From lute the lutanist should cut him clear?
  3. But you, ereeld's marasmus do me dead,
  4. Desist, I pray you from vain diligence,
  5. Nor hang a buckle on Priapus' yard.
  1. The Gods and Goddesses deny thy teeth
  2. A bait, a whetting, neighbour cunnilinge!
  3. Thro' whom my girl (once strong and never false,
  4. But with her swift untiring paces wont
  5. To visit us), that hapless Labdacé,