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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPOKEN BY VENUS ON SEEING HER STATUE DONE BY PRAXITELES, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: "anchises, paris, and adonis too,"
Last Line: But where has this praxiteles been prying?
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.);statues
First Line: "anchises, paris, and adonis too,"
Last Line: But where has this praxiteles been prying?
Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.);statues
Anchises, Paris, and Adonis too,
Have seen me naked, and expos'd to view;
All these I freely own, without denying:
But where has this Praxiteles been prying?
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