Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Ask I wherefore no God careth his sign to conceal?
  2. Wieldeth the Lord of the World his thunderbolt ever unhidden,
  3. Nor is trident a-sheath given to the Watery God:
  4. Mars never veileth that blade whose might is his prevalent power,
  5. Nor in her tepid lap Pallas concealeth the spear:
  6. Say me, is Phoebus ashamed his gold-tipt arrows to carry?