Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- This, with his snout aye alert to uproot the lilies a-blowing,
- Slain for thy victim 's the pig bred in the stye's tepid reek.
- But, an thy will be not to murther the herd, O Priapus,
- Grant of thy grace yon gate into the garden be shut.
- Thou, who lest manly mark thy glances meet,
- Hence fain avertest thee as suits the pure;
- No wonder 'twere if that to see thou fear'st
- Within thy vitals thou desire to feel.
- PEnelope's first syllable followed by firstling of DIdo
- Take, and of CAmus--the front also of REmus the head.
- Whatso thou makest of these unto me when caught in my orchard
- Thief thou shalt give, such pain shall for thy thieving atone.
- An I rustical seem to have spoken somewhat unlearned,
- Pardon me: apples I pluck, pluck I no matter of books;
- Yet in my rudeness ok when hearing the dominie reading,
- Stood I storing in mind much of Homerical lore.
- 'Psoleon' fain he calls what we 'Psoloenta' be calling;
- What we 'Culum' name, 'Culeon' loves he to term;
- 'Smerdaleos' forsure designs what is nothing too cleanly
- And is the Pedicon's yard rightly 'Smerdalea' hight.