Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. From this my presence fear not to be bann'd
  2. Fen as the sterner Gods of Heaven command.
  3. The Ne'er-do-wells and paltry gods are we
  4. Of rural worship and 'spite modesty
  5. Aye under Jove with balls a-bare we stand:
  6. Then enter whoso hither entry seek
  7. Reckless of bawdy-house's blackened reek!