Alexander Pope

Here you will find thePoemInscription on a Grotto, the Work of Nine Ladies.of poet Alexander Pope

Inscription on a Grotto, the Work of Nine Ladies.

Here, shunning idleness at once and praise, This radiant pile nine rural sisters raise; The glittering emblem of each spotless dame, Clear as her soul and shining as her frame; Beauty which nature only can impart, And such a polish as disgraces art; But Fate disposed them in this humble sort, And hid in deserts what would charm a Court.