Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Only come lad or lass lovely with longest of locks.
  1. I am not hewèd of the fragile elm
  2. Nor is this post supine with rigid vein
  3. Carved out of any wood thou please to take;
  4. But 'tis engendered by live cypress-tree
  5. Which fears nor hundred ages fully told