Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Remain as please thee or at will depart.
  2. For, though full ready seem I, yet I want
  3. Of rockets half-score bundles at the least,
  4. Ere I that ditch-like groin can scrub and crush
  5. 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;
  3. Nor dew (believe me!) 'twas nor hoary frost,
  4. But whatso gusheth of its own accord
  5. When I bethink me of a pathic god.
  1. Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple
  2. Verse of a strain jocose rather than modest and chaste,
  3. Cease to be hurt by the song obscene, for verily ne'er was
  4. Wont our mentule to wear eyebrow up-drawn in surprise.