Gertrude Bloede

Gertrude Bloede (1845–1905), who wrote also as Stuart Sterne, was an American poet, born in Dresden and brought to America in 1850. She lived in Brooklyn from 1861 and was a protégée of Bayard Taylor and his wife.

Her books include Poems (1874), Giorgio, and Other Poems (1881), Beyond the Shadow (1888) and Piero da Castiglione (1890). Stedman included three of her poems in An American Anthology (1900), from which the poems here are taken.