Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Yet from this strangeness and shame could nothing ever avail us
  2. 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;
  2. Perspectus, these fanes give (O Priapus!) to thee.