Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Looser than Median or than Indian hose;
  2. Remain as please thee or at will depart.
  3. For, though full ready seem I, yet I want
  4. Of rockets half-score bundles at the least,
  5. Ere I that ditch-like groin can scrub and crush
  6. The swarming wormlets of thy privy parts.
  1. Who of you people here shall come to sup
  2. Yet bring no verses suited to my taste;
  3. I pray his wife or punk, hot-wantoning,
  4. Reduce his rival to most languid state;
  5. While he, all lonely through the livelong night,
  6. Lie, by the lustful rockets sore disturbed.
  1. Tho' see you drenchèd wet that part of me
  2. Whereby Priapus I am signified;