Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. To scare the birdies from the birder's snare.
  2. The way is closèd nor prone-fallen thief
  3. Can with his backside expiate his crime.
  4. Thus I who erstwhile ever, ever and aye
  5. Buttocks of plundering wights was wont to cleave,
  6. For many a night and day in idlesse stand.
  7. I also, suffering pains enough and more,
  8. Flow off in semen and a lecher whiles
  9. Unlive my life-tide. Who could ever think
  10. From lute the lutanist should cut him clear?
  11. But you, ereeld's marasmus do me dead,