Priapeia

Priaepia

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

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