Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Fiercelier flamed the fire and how (no unavenged witness!)
  2. I was o'erwhelmed by the words and the deeds of these Furies well-coupled;
  3. For that like bladder that bursts with a loud explosion I farted
  4. From my cleft buttocks of fig. Hereat they ran to the city,
  5. Canidia's false teeth with Sagana's towering hair-tour
  6. Falling aground and herbs and magical armlets on forearms