Elizabeth I -- A Narrative Poem

There’s a Tower on the bank of the river

With ghosts who make people shiver

Many people have been locked in this tower

By whoever currently had power

One such prisoner of the Tower

Was Elizabeth the first for her power

By her half-sister, Queen Mary

For almost a year she there had to tarry

Like her mother before her, although

She was not executed, no

Her mother’s head was put on a pike

But Elizabeth was too well-liked

She waited in the Tower for

Her sister Queen Mary to rule no more,

This happened in fifteen fifty-eight

And Elizabeth’s rule was then fate

Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen

She ruled her people well indeed

And they had a golden age then

Though Elizabeth would marry no man