Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Songs, fit for garden not for book-work, I
  2. Wrote and none over-care applied thereto.
  3. No Muses dared I (like the verseful crew)
  4. Invite to visit such unvirginal site.
  5. For heart and senses did forbid me quite
  6. To set the choir Pïérian, chaste and fair,