Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Artlessly garlanded thy brow we crowned
  2. And with loud shouting often drove from thee
  3. What agèd Raven or what agile 'Daw
  4. Would peck thy holy face with horny beak.
  5. Farewell, Priapus! naught to thee owe I
  6. Farewell, forsaker damn'd of private parts!
  7. Pale with neglect amid the fields shalt he
  8. Where savage bandog shall bepiss thee or
  9. Wild boar shall rub thee with his ribs mud-caked.
  10. Accursèd Penis! Oh, by whom my pains