Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Forceful is Mars with brand, spear, O Minerva, is thine;
  2. Liber engages in fray, confiding on sheaflets of Thyrsi;
  3. By th' Apollinean hand shafts (they assure us) are shot;
  4. Hercules' right is armed with the club that cannot be conquer'd;
  5. But a distended yard makes me an object of awe.
  1. Wealth is my loss! Do thou vouchsafe lend aid to my prayer,
  2. Nor, by thy signal shown, me, O Priapus, betray: