Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Equal to thee whom, to his home returned,
  2. Theseus found lying in the fosse a-cold!)
  3. Hither with tottering gait is wont to come;
  4. And, wrinkled hands upraising to the stars,
  5. Begs that she'll never fail a yard to find;
  6. And, as yester'een she prayed ere daylight fled
  7. One of three teeth she happened out to crache.
  8. 'Bear it afar (cried I) and let it lurk