Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Whose home be Lampsacus and holt, Priapus!
- For thee in cities worship most the shores
- Of Hellespont the richest oystery strand.
- Thou who with prickle affrightest men and passives with sickle!
- Of the secluded spot deign the few acres to guard;
- So may the veteran thieves ne'er force their way to thine orchards;