Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Grant that a restless swelling rouse my nerve
- Lustful a-sudden and upraise it high,
- Nor cease excite it and excite it more
- Till wanton Venus burst my weakened side.
- Neither of garden nor of blessèd vine
- But of a little holt (Priapus!) guard,
- Wherein wast born and may'st be born again;
- I warn thee plundering hand alway repel