Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Never this mentule of mine riseth erect from my groin.
  2. Yet though lifeless now and a pole to no one of service,
  3. Build me an altar and it shall be of service to all.
  1. Right through the middle of lads and of lasses a passage shall pierce