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,
  5. Soon as his patter on the path shalt hear,
  6. Grant that a restless swelling rouse my nerve
  7. Lustful a-sudden and upraise it high,
  8. Nor cease excite it and excite it more
  9. Till wanton Venus burst my weakened side.
  1. Neither of garden nor of blessèd vine
  2. But of a little holt (Priapus!) guard,