Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Liber engages in fray, confiding on sheaflets of Thyrsi;
  2. By th' Apollinean hand shafts (they assure us) are shot;
  3. Hercules' right is armed with the club that cannot be conquer'd;
  4. 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:
  3. Whatso before thee I laid, of home-grown apples the firstlings,