Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Of the secluded spot deign the few acres to guard;
  2. So may the veteran thieves ne'er force their way to thine orchards;
  3. 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
  6. Nor the decaying of long, drawn-out eld.
  7. Dread this (O evil one!) whoe'er thou be!