Gertrude of Wyoming: A Pennsylvanian Tale (1809) is a romantic epic in Spenserian stanza composed by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell (1777–1844).[1] The poem was well received, but not a financial success for its author. The poem was written in the context of the Battle of Wyoming.
The poem begins:
On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming!
Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall,
And roofless homes, a sad remembrance bring,
Of what thy gentle people did befall;
Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all
That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore.
Sweet land! may I thy lost delights recall,
And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore,
Whose beauty was the love of Pennsylvania's shore!
References
↑Gosse, Edmund. English Literature: From the Age of Johnson to the Age of Tennyson. Heinemann, MCMIII.
Gertrude of Wyoming; A Pennsylvanian Tale. And Other Poems. By Thomas Campbell. Author of "The Pleasures of Hope," &c. London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court. Published for the Author, by Longman, Hurst, Reed, and Orme, Paternoster Row. 1809.
