Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- O'ermuch these matrons know and they regard
- With willing glances this my vasty yard.
- 'Why be my parts obscene displayed without cover?' thou askest:
- Ask I wherefore no God careth his sign to conceal?
- Wieldeth the Lord of the World his thunderbolt ever unhidden,
- Nor is trident a-sheath given to the Watery God:
- Mars never veileth that blade whose might is his prevalent power,
- Nor in her tepid lap Pallas concealeth the spear: