Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Here assigned, lest the ground monumental follow the heir folk.
  2. Now 'tis salubrious made: one fives in th' Esquiliae, also
  3. Walks on the sunny mound, where erstwhile showed to folk sad-eyed
  4. Fields by bones deformed a-glistening ghostly and ghastly;
  5. Yet for me never was aught, or thieves or ferals accustomed
  6. This foul spot to behaunt, a cause of such care and such trouble