Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Rouen | | Place de la Pucelle | | Maria Lowell (1821–1853) |
| | | HERE blooms the legend, fed by Time and Chance, | |
| Fresh as the morning, though with centuries old, | |
| The whitest lily on the shield of France, | |
| With heart of virgin gold. | |
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| Along the square she moved, sweet Joan of Arc, | 5 |
| With face more pallid than a daylit star, | |
| Half seen, half doubted, while before her dark | |
| Stretched the array of war. | |
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| Swift passed the battle-smoke of lying breath | |
| From off her path, as if a wind had blown, | 10 |
| Showing no faithless king, but righteous Death, | |
| On the low wooden throne. | |
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| He would reward her: she who meekly wore | |
| Alike the gilded mail and peasant gown, | |
| As meekly now received one honor more, | 15 |
| The formless, fiery crown. | |
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| A white dove trembled up the heated air, | |
| And in the opening zenith found its goal; | |
| Soft as a downward feather, dropped a prayer | |
| For each repentant soul. | 20 | | | |
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