Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. And hung in cobwebs fain shalt block the way.
  2. Such prize is thine who thrice and four times shalt
  3. Engulf thy lecherous head in fosse profound.
  4. Though sick or languid lie thou, still thou must
  5. Rasp her till wretched, wretched thou shalt fill
  6. Thrice or e'en fourfold times her cavernous gape;
  7. And naught this haughty sprite shall 'vail thee when
  8. Plunging thine errant head in plashing mire.
  9. Why lies it lazy? Doth its sloth displease thee?
  10. For once thou mayest weaken it unavenged;
  11. But when that golden boy again shall come,
  12. Soon as his patter on the path shalt hear,
  13. Grant that a restless swelling rouse my nerve
  14. Lustful a-sudden and upraise it high,
  15. Nor cease excite it and excite it more