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Gertrude of Wyoming

Gertrude of Wyoming

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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.

Thomas Campbell

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

  1. Gosse, Edmund. English Literature: From the Age of Johnson to the Age of Tennyson. Heinemann, MCMIII.



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