Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Thou, who be ready to read these cultureless sallies of singing,
- Lower awhile yon brow suiting the Latian pride:
- Here in this fane dwells not or Phoebus' sister or Vesta,
- Neither the deity sprung forth of the patrial poll;
- But the red guard of our garths, with organ grosser than rightful
- Aye of his privities nude, guiltless of covering gear.
- So with thy tunic hide what part is made to be hidden,
- Or with what eyes see the parts deign these my lines to peruse.