Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Nor even hinder can I; no sooner doth wandering Luna
  2. Show her full face than bones and ill herbs they hasten to gather.
  3. I with these eyes espied in sables kilted a-pacing
  4. Canidia, nude-foot, long hair bestrewing her shoulders,
  5. Howling with Sagana th' elder (and paleness had rendered the couple