Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. With wooden sickle and a prickle of wood,
  2. Yet will I seize thee, girl! and hold thee seized
  3. And This, however gross, withouten fraud
  4. Stiffer than lyre-string or than twisted rope
  5. I'll thrust and bury to thy seventh rib.
  1. Oft in my speech one letter is lost; for Predicate always
  2. Pedicate I pronounce. Reason--a trip of the tongue!
  1. Matrons avoid this site, for your chaste breed
  2. 'Twere vile these verses impudique to read.
  3. They still come on and not a doit they heed!
  4. O'ermuch these matrons know and they regard
  5. With willing glances this my vasty yard.