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TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, ON HIS PAINTING FOR ME THE STATUES.. by ALEXANDER POPE

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT GOD, WHAT GENIUS, DID THE PENCIL MOVE
Last Line: AND STRONG AS HERCULES.
Subject(s): FRIENDSHIP; KNELLER, SIR GODFREY (1649-1723); KNILLER, GOTTFRIED;
(OF APOLLO, VENUS AND HERCULES)

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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