Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Whenas by accident my yard was hurt
  2. And I (unhappy!) feared the surgeon's hand
  3. To such legitimate almighty gods--
  4. Phoebus for instance take or Phoebus' son--
  5. I blushed to offer for a cure my cock
  6. And prayed--'Priapus, an thou heal the part,
  7. O Sire, whose very counterpart thou seem'st
  8. And without hacking make it whole again,