Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. While th' importunate fowls affrights a reed on my head-poll
  2. Planted, and hinders their flock from 'lighting in newly made gardens.
  3. Erst to be hither borne from narrow cellules ejected
  4. Corpses by fellow-slaves were coffined in biers of the vilest.
  5. This was the common yard to ensepulchre wretched plebeians,