Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Matter of different kind was the wander of crafty Ulysses:
  2. An thou would verity know Love too was motor of this.
  3. Hence does he gather the root whence springs that aureate blossom
  4. Which whenas 'Moly' hight, 'Moly' but 'Mentula' means.
  5. Here too of Circe we read and Calypso, daughter of Atlas,
  6. Bearing the mighty commands dealt by Dulichian Brave
  7. Whom did Alcinous' maiden admire by cause of his member
  8. For with a leafy branch hardly that yard could be dad.
  9. Yet was he hasting, his way to regain his little old woman:
  10. Thy coynte (Penelope!) claiming his every thought;