Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Yet on me gazing forthright gigglest thou
  2. And holdest funny matter to deride
  3. The pillar perking from the groin of me.
  1. 'Ware of my catching! If caught, with rod I never will harm thee
  2. Nor to thee deal sore wound using my sickle that curves.
  3. Pierced with a foot-long pole thy skin shall be stretched in such fashion
  4. Thou shalt be fain to believe ne'er had a wrinkle thine arse.
  1. A she (than Hector's parent longer aged,
  2. Sister to Cumae's Sibyl seemeth me;
  3. Equal to thee whom, to his home returned,