Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Lustful a-sudden and upraise it high,
  2. Nor cease excite it and excite it more
  3. Till wanton Venus burst my weakened side.
  1. Neither of garden nor of blessèd vine
  2. But of a little holt (Priapus!) guard,
  3. Wherein wast born and may'st be born again;
  4. I warn thee plundering hand alway repel
  5. And keep the fuel for thy master's fire--
  6. An this be wanting, mind! of wood thou art.
  1. Roses in spring in the autumn fruits and in summer they bring me