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