Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Yet, Oh! than every pathic softer far;
  2. Squatter than Pygmey fearful of the crane;
  3. Harsher and hairier than pelt of bear;
  4. Looser than Median or than Indian hose;
  5. Remain as please thee or at will depart.
  6. For, though full ready seem I, yet I want
  7. Of rockets half-score bundles at the least,
  8. Ere I that ditch-like groin can scrub and crush
  9. The swarming wormlets of thy privy parts.
  1. Who of you people here shall come to sup