Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. When that invidious beard either soft cheek shall invade;
  2. What unto Jove gave he who, borne by the worshipful flyer,
  3. Mixes the gratefullest cups, ever his leman's delight;
  4. What on the primal night maid gives to her love-longing bridegroom
  5. Dreading ineptly the hurt dealt to a different part.
  6. Simpler far to declare in our Latin, Lend me thy buttocks;
  7. What shall I say to thee else? Dull's the Minerva of me.
  1. These tablets, sacred to the Rigid God,