| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | V. Queen Elizabeth | | By Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
| | | THE LIONESS that stalks the forest bound | |
| More awful in her presence and her port | |
| Looked not than she: high in her cloudy court | |
| The rock-throned osprey, glancing sternly round | |
| Through sun-lit air unshaken by a sound, | 5 |
| From low desires and the base world’s resort | |
| Seemed elevated less: the dolphin’s sport | |
| O’er foam-flecked waves and sapphire depths profound | |
| Showed not a pageant to the eye of morn | |
| More bright. Her thoughts were in the purple born; | 10 |
| Her eye was empery; she gave the nod, | |
| And all obeyed; all earthly powers with scorn | |
| She noted; yea, the fane itself she trod | |
| As though she were the sister of a god! | | | | |
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