Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. For that the cold I dread lest I being god made of timber
  2. End me as fuel for fire chopped by those ignorant boors.
  1. I thuswise fashioned I by rustic art
  2. And from dried poplar-trunk (O traveller!) hewn,
  3. This fieldlet, leftwards as thy glances fall,
  4. And my lord's cottage with his pauper garth