Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Stroke thee, or rub on thee her lubric thigh.
  2. A two-fanged mistress, Romulus old remembering,
  3. Awaits thee; middlemost whose sable groin
  4. And hide time-loosened thou with coynte-rime bewrayed
  5. And hung in cobwebs fain shalt block the way.
  6. Such prize is thine who thrice and four times shalt
  7. Engulf thy lecherous head in fosse profound.
  8. Though sick or languid lie thou, still thou must