Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Whenas a maiden chance me in the middle to kiss?
  2. Here none augur we: need: believe my word she is saying -
  3. 'Let the rude spear in me work with its natural wont!'
  1. Whenas the Rigid God espied a wight
  2. Crisping his head with curling-tongs aglow
  3. That he be likest to a Moorish maid,
  4. 'Ho thou! (cried he) we tell thee, catamite;
  5. However much thou toast and curl thyself
  6. Is then a damsel more of worth, I ask,
  7. Than are the hairy honours of thy yard?'