Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Fields by bones deformed a-glistening ghostly and ghastly;
  2. Yet for me never was aught, or thieves or ferals accustomed
  3. This foul spot to behaunt, a cause of such care and such trouble
  4. As are the hags who by spells and poisons upset and envenom
  5. Spirits and minds of mankind; these nowise bring to perdition
  6. Nor even hinder can I; no sooner doth wandering Luna
  7. Show her full face than bones and ill herbs they hasten to gather.
  8. I with these eyes espied in sables kilted a-pacing
  9. Canidia, nude-foot, long hair bestrewing her shoulders,
  10. Howling with Sagana th' elder (and paleness had rendered the couple
  11. Horrid of mien); anon both the ground with their talons