Arts & Sciences
On Drawings of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules, Made for Pope by Sir Godfrey Kneller
From Miscellanies
Arts & Sciences
What god, what genius did the pencil move,
When Kneller painted these?
'Twas friendship, warm as Phoebus, kind as Love,
And strong as Hercules.
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MLA
Pope, Alexander. “On Drawings of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules, Made for Pope by Sir Godfrey Kneller.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pope/118/.
Chicago
Pope, Alexander. “On Drawings of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules, Made for Pope by Sir Godfrey Kneller.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pope/118/.
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