Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- This is to hurt while helping, this is but
- To scare the birdies from the birder's snare.
- The way is closèd nor prone-fallen thief
- Can with his backside expiate his crime.
- Thus I who erstwhile ever, ever and aye
- Buttocks of plundering wights was wont to cleave,
- For many a night and day in idlesse stand.
- I also, suffering pains enough and more,