Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Spirits and minds of mankind; these nowise bring to perdition
  2. Nor even hinder can I; no sooner doth wandering Luna
  3. Show her full face than bones and ill herbs they hasten to gather.
  4. I with these eyes espied in sables kilted a-pacing