Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Plunging thine errant head in plashing mire.
  2. Why lies it lazy? Doth its sloth displease thee?
  3. For once thou mayest weaken it unavenged;
  4. But when that golden boy again shall come,