Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Hence of such Godhead (traveller!), stand in awe;
  2. Best it befits thee off to keep thy hands.
  3. Thy cross is ready, shaped as artless yard;
  4. 'I'm willing 'faith' (thou say'st) but 'faith here comes
  5. The boor and plucking forth with bended arm
  6. Makes of this tool a club for doughty hand.
  1. This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turf-builded cottage,
  2. Roofed with its osier-twigs and thatched with its bundles of sedges;
  3. I from the dried oak hewn and fashioned with rustical hatchet
  4. Guarding them year by year while more are they evermore thriving.