Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- An thou would fain go filled thou mayest devour our Priapus;
- Even consume his yard--pure thou shalt ever remain.
- First a wild-fig-tree trunk was I, not useful as timber,
- When the mechanic in doubt anent making me stool or Priapus
- Chose me for being a god; so a god to the thieves and the birdies
- Direst of dreads I became, my right the robbers restraining,
- Eke with a ruddy pole from parts obscenely projected,
- While th' importunate fowls affrights a reed on my head-poll
- Planted, and hinders their flock from 'lighting in newly made gardens.
- Erst to be hither borne from narrow cellules ejected