Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. To have sand or sawdust differing leeches deem--
  2. Such one to visit me anights is wont
  3. Bringing with ghostly leanness ghastly hue;
  4. Whist I (like island iron-forger) seem
  5. To rub and rasp me on a lanthorn's horn
  1. Wont the Priapi of old were to have both Naiads and Dryads
  2. And the stiff vein of the God all had what causes to droop;
  3. Now there's naught of the kind; now so fulfilled my desire is
  4. Fain am I left to believe every Nymph to be dead.
  5. Vile thing 'twere to be done, but lest I burst me with straining