JOAN OF ARC,

Ballads, Lyrics, and Minor Poems.

BY

ROBERT SOUTHEY,

AUTHOR OF "THALABA," "MADOC," ETC.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY JOHN GILBERT.

LONDON:

GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS,

BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL.

NEW YORK: 129, GRAND STREET,

DEDICATORY SONNET

TO

HIS WIFE.

WITH way-worn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone,
Life's upward road I journeyed many a day,
And hymning many a sad yet soothing lay
Beguiled my wandering with the charms of song.
Lonely my heart, and rugged was my way,
Yet often plucked I, as I passed along,

The wild and simple flowers of Poesy;
And as beseemed the wayward Fancy's child,
Entwined each ramdom weed that pleased mine eye.
Accept the wreath, BELOVED! it is wild

And rudely garlanded; yet scorn not thou The humble offering, where the sad rue weaves 'Mid gayer flowers its intermingled leaves,

And I have twined the myrtle for thy brow.