Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. With Sagana these ghosts, now sad-toned then in sharp treble.
  2. How too the head of a wolf with fangs of variegate adder
  3. Furtive they buried in earth, whereat for the waxen imago
  4. Fiercelier flamed the fire and how (no unavenged witness!)
  5. I was o'erwhelmed by the words and the deeds of these Furies well-coupled;
  6. For that like bladder that bursts with a loud explosion I farted
  7. From my cleft buttocks of fig. Hereat they ran to the city,
  8. Canidia's false teeth with Sagana's towering hair-tour
  9. Falling aground and herbs and magical armlets on forearms
  10. Showed to beholder's sight with many a joke and much laughter.