Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Why laugh such laughter, O most silly maid?
  2. My form Praxiteles nor Scopas hewed;
  3. To me no Phidian handwork finish gave;
  4. But me a bailiff hacked from shapeless log,