Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Still can I perforate those caught by me,
  2. Tithonus, Priam, Nestor--every one.
  3. You see how mightily my rage ye rouse
  4. Who hem me ever with a bullfinch hedge
  5. Forbidding robbers from approaching me.
  6. This is to hurt while helping, this is but
  7. To scare the birdies from the birder's snare.