Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- One who like rotten pounce so lacking juice
- None ever saw her with a slavering lip;
- One whom for blood her arteries within
- To have sand or sawdust differing leeches deem--
- Such one to visit me anights is wont
- Bringing with ghostly leanness ghastly hue;