On a certain Lady at Court by Alexander Pope
b"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."