Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Whoso of violets here shall pluck or rose,
  2. Or furtive greens or apples never bought,
  3. May he in want of woman or of boy
  4. By the same tension you in me behold
  5. Go burst, I ever pray, and may his yard
  6. Against his navel throb and rap in vain.