Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Nor to thee deal sore wound using my sickle that curves.
  2. Pierced with a foot-long pole thy skin shall be stretched in such fashion
  3. 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,
  4. Theseus found lying in the fosse a-cold!)
  5. Hither with tottering gait is wont to come;
  6. And, wrinkled hands upraising to the stars,
  7. Begs that she'll never fail a yard to find;