Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Ope to thy bidding, nor on groaning bed
  2. His mobile buttocks writhe with aiding art:
  3. Nor shall the wanton damsel's legier hand
  4. Stroke thee, or rub on thee her lubric thigh.
  5. A two-fanged mistress, Romulus old remembering,
  6. Awaits thee; middlemost whose sable groin
  7. And hide time-loosened thou with coynte-rime bewrayed
  8. And hung in cobwebs fain shalt block the way.
  9. Such prize is thine who thrice and four times shalt
  10. Engulf thy lecherous head in fosse profound.