Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Thunders are under Jove; with the trident weaponed is Neptune;
  2. Forceful is Mars with brand, spear, O Minerva, is thine;
  3. Liber engages in fray, confiding on sheaflets of Thyrsi;
  4. By th' Apollinean hand shafts (they assure us) are shot;
  5. Hercules' right is armed with the club that cannot be conquer'd;
  6. But a distended yard makes me an object of awe.