Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Or with what eyes see the parts deign these my lines to peruse.
  1. In play, Priapus (thou canst testify),
  2. Songs, fit for garden not for book-work, I
  3. Wrote and none over-care applied thereto.
  4. No Muses dared I (like the verseful crew)
  5. Invite to visit such unvirginal site.