Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Who hem me ever with a bullfinch hedge
  2. Forbidding robbers from approaching me.
  3. This is to hurt while helping, this is but
  4. To scare the birdies from the birder's snare.
  5. The way is closèd nor prone-fallen thief
  6. Can with his backside expiate his crime.