Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Reduce his rival to most languid state;
  2. While he, all lonely through the livelong night,
  3. 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.
  1. A certain person, an thou please (Priapus!),
  2. Plays me, a girl with piles full many piled;
  3. And nor she gives me nor denies her gift,