Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. To 'scape the Lecher God's fane venerand;
  2. And, if a damsel lay the night with thee,
  3. From this my presence fear not to be bann'd
  4. Fen as the sterner Gods of Heaven command.
  5. The Ne'er-do-wells and paltry gods are we
  6. Of rural worship and 'spite modesty
  7. Aye under Jove with balls a-bare we stand:
  8. Then enter whoso hither entry seek