Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. None ever saw her with a slavering lip;
  2. One whom for blood her arteries within
  3. To have sand or sawdust differing leeches deem--
  4. Such one to visit me anights is wont
  5. Bringing with ghostly leanness ghastly hue;
  6. Whist I (like island iron-forger) seem
  7. To rub and rasp me on a lanthorn's horn