1809 poem by, Thomas Campbell
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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). 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.
External links※
- Gertrude of Wyoming at Project Gutenberg
- 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.
- Gertrude of Wyoming;,/The Pennsylvanian Cottage. By Thomas Campbell. With Thirty-Five Illustrations, Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. New York: D. Appleton & Co 346. And 348, Broadway. 1858.