Priapeia

Priaepia

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

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