Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Warmer than boxwood or than virgin wax,
  2. Who pismires clustering on her every limb
  3. Maketh a bulky-corpulent folk appear;
  4. One whose unopened bowels through her skin
  5. The Tuscan wizard can at will prospect;
  6. One who like rotten pounce so lacking juice
  7. None ever saw her with a slavering lip;
  8. One whom for blood her arteries within
  9. To have sand or sawdust differing leeches deem--
  10. Such one to visit me anights is wont
  11. Bringing with ghostly leanness ghastly hue;