Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Show her full face than bones and ill herbs they hasten to gather.
  2. I with these eyes espied in sables kilted a-pacing
  3. Canidia, nude-foot, long hair bestrewing her shoulders,
  4. Howling with Sagana th' elder (and paleness had rendered the couple
  5. Horrid of mien); anon both the ground with their talons
  6. Clawing, and black-fleeced lamb with teeth a-tearing to tatters