Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Such prize is thine who thrice and four times shalt
  2. Engulf thy lecherous head in fosse profound.
  3. Though sick or languid lie thou, still thou must
  4. Rasp her till wretched, wretched thou shalt fill
  5. Thrice or e'en fourfold times her cavernous gape;
  6. And naught this haughty sprite shall 'vail thee when
  7. Plunging thine errant head in plashing mire.
  8. Why lies it lazy? Doth its sloth displease thee?
  9. For once thou mayest weaken it unavenged;
  10. But when that golden boy again shall come,