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Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Complete Poetical Works. 1903.

Poems: 1718–27

On Drawings of the Statues of Apollo, Venus, and Hercules

  • Made for Pope by Sir Godfrey Kneller
  • These drawings were made for the adornment of Pope’s house at Twickenham.


    • WHAT god, what genius did the pencil move,

    When Kneller painted these?

    ’T was friendship, warm as Phœbus, kind as Love,

    And strong as Hercules.


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