Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Ho thou, which hardly thy rapacious hand
  2. Canst from the garden in my charge contain,
  3. First shall this watchman, ever lustful loon,
  4. Entering and exiting alternate-wise
  5. Widen thy portal to its fullest stretch
  6. Then shall the couple guarding either flank,
  7. Grandly provided with those pensile parts,
  8. After they've sorely pierced thee prostrate thrown
  9. Bring to the self-same part an ass-foal lewd
  10. Gifted with pizzle not a whit the worse.
  11. Then who is wise beware of working ill,
  12. Knowing so much of pego waits him here.