Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. In his diminutive frame dwelt a pugnacious soul.
  2. Yet from this strangeness and shame could nothing ever avail us
  3. And such damage I deem better it were to repel.
  1. While there is life 'tis fitting to hope, O rustical guardian!
  2. Here be thou present and thou aid us, Priapus stiff-nerved.
  1. Bailiff of house whilom, now I of fieldlet the tiller;