Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Ne'er be reproach to myself this mentule ever uncover'd:
  2. Lacking my missile's defence I shall be wholly unarm'd.
  1. Why laugh such laughter, O most silly maid?
  2. My form Praxiteles nor Scopas hewed;
  3. To me no Phidian handwork finish gave;
  4. But me a bailiff hacked from shapeless log,
  5. And quoth my maker, 'Thou Priapus be!'
  6. Yet on me gazing forthright gigglest thou