Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Rasp her till wretched, wretched thou shalt fill
  2. Thrice or e'en fourfold times her cavernous gape;
  3. And naught this haughty sprite shall 'vail thee when
  4. Plunging thine errant head in plashing mire.
  5. Why lies it lazy? Doth its sloth displease thee?
  6. For once thou mayest weaken it unavenged;