On a certain Lady at Court by Alexander Pope
Pope read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------------------\n\n On a certain Lady at Court \nby Alexander Pope (1688 \u2013 1744)\n\nI know a thing that 's most uncommon; \n (Envy, be silent and attend!) \nI know a reasonable woman, \n Handsome and witty, yet a friend. \n \nNot warp'd by passion, awed by rumour; \n Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly; \nAn equal mixture of good-humour \n And sensible soft melancholy. \n \n'Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?' \n Yes, she has one, I must aver: \nWhen all the world conspires to praise her, \n The woman's deaf, and does not hear.