Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Stroke thee, or rub on thee her lubric thigh.
- A two-fanged mistress, Romulus old remembering,
- Awaits thee; middlemost whose sable groin
- And hide time-loosened thou with coynte-rime bewrayed
- And hung in cobwebs fain shalt block the way.
- Such prize is thine who thrice and four times shalt
- Engulf thy lecherous head in fosse profound.
- Though sick or languid lie thou, still thou must