Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. My sluggard prickle raised his senile head.
  2. Art pleased (Priapus!) under leafy tree
  3. Wont with vine-tendrils sacred sconce to wreathe
  4. And seat thee ruddy with thy ruddled yard?
  5. But, O Triphallus, oft with freshest flowers
  6. Artlessly garlanded thy brow we crowned
  7. And with loud shouting often drove from thee
  8. What agèd Raven or what agile 'Daw
  9. Would peck thy holy face with horny beak.
  10. Farewell, Priapus! naught to thee owe I
  11. Farewell, forsaker damn'd of private parts!
  12. Pale with neglect amid the fields shalt he
  13. Where savage bandog shall bepiss thee or