''Gertrude of Wyoming: A Pennsylvanian Tale'' (1809) is a romantic epic in

Spenserian stanza The Spenserian stanza is a fixed verse form invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem ''The Faerie Queene'' (1590–96). Each stanza contains nine lines in total: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic ...

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 Battle of Wyoming, also known as the Wyoming Massacre, was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War between Patriot militiamen and a mixed force of Loyalist soldiers and Iroquois raiders. The clash took place in the Wyom ...

. 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!

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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;, or 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. 1809 poems Scottish poetry Wyoming Valley Female characters in literature Fictional characters from Wyoming Literary characters introduced in 1809 {{poem-stub