Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Would peck thy holy face with horny beak.
  2. Farewell, Priapus! naught to thee owe I
  3. Farewell, forsaker damn'd of private parts!
  4. Pale with neglect amid the fields shalt he
  5. Where savage bandog shall bepiss thee or
  6. Wild boar shall rub thee with his ribs mud-caked.
  7. Accursèd Penis! Oh, by whom my pains
  8. Shall with sore righteous penalty be paid?
  9. Howe'er thou 'plain, no more shall tender boy
  10. Ope to thy bidding, nor on groaning bed
  11. His mobile buttocks writhe with aiding art:
  12. Nor shall the wanton damsel's legier hand
  13. Stroke thee, or rub on thee her lubric thigh.
  14. A two-fanged mistress, Romulus old remembering,