Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  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.
  6. For heart and senses did forbid me quite
  7. To set the choir Pïérian, chaste and fair,
  8. Before Priapus' tool--such deed to dare.