Gertrude of Wyoming



Gertrude of Wyoming: A Pennsylvanian Tale (1809) is a romantic epic in Spenserian stanza composed by Scottish poet Thomas Campbell (1777–1844). 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!