Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Author:Lucy Aikin
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849891196
Published: 2016-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

No sun by day that ever saw him rest

Free from the toils of his so busy charge,

No night that harboured rancour in his breast,

Nor merry mood made Reason run at large.

His head a source of gravity and sense,

His memory a shop of civil art:

His tongue a stream of sugred eloquence,

Wisdom and meekness lay mingled in his heart.” etc.

The literary propensities of Elizabeth have already come under our notice: they had frequently served to divert her mind from the cares of government; but in the state of unremitted anxiety occasioned by her dread of the machinations relative to the queen of Scots, in which she had found the first peer of her realm a principal actor, her thoughts, even in the few leisure hours which she found means to bestow on these soothing recreations, still hovered about the objects from which she most sought to withdraw them.

The following sonnet of her composition will illustrate this remark: it was published during her lifetime in Puttenham’s “Arte of English Poesie,” and its authenticity, its principal merit, has never been called in question.

Sonnet by Queen Elizabeth.

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