Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape,
  2. Warmer than boxwood or than virgin wax,
  3. Who pismires clustering on her every limb
  4. Maketh a bulky-corpulent folk appear;
  5. One whose unopened bowels through her skin
  6. The Tuscan wizard can at will prospect;
  7. One who like rotten pounce so lacking juice
  8. None ever saw her with a slavering lip;
  9. One whom for blood her arteries within
  10. To have sand or sawdust differing leeches deem--
  11. Such one to visit me anights is wont
  12. Bringing with ghostly leanness ghastly hue;
  13. Whist I (like island iron-forger) seem
  14. To rub and rasp me on a lanthorn's horn