Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. The Tuscan wizard can at will prospect;
  2. One who like rotten pounce so lacking juice
  3. None ever saw her with a slavering lip;
  4. One whom for blood her arteries within
  5. To have sand or sawdust differing leeches deem--
  6. Such one to visit me anights is wont
  7. Bringing with ghostly leanness ghastly hue;
  8. Whist I (like island iron-forger) seem
  9. To rub and rasp me on a lanthorn's horn
  1. Wont the Priapi of old were to have both Naiads and Dryads