Occasional PoemsUnited States Phoebe Hinsdale Brown, "I love to steal awhile away", American religious hymn William Cullen Bryant, To a Waterfowl Thomas Green Fessenden, The ladies monitor, a poem (Bellows Falls: Printed by Bill Blake & Co.) John Neal: The Portico, first long poems published in volume 5 Battle of Niagara, considered the best poetic description of Niagara Falls up to that time Goldau, or, the Maniac Harper, which accompanied Battle of Niagara in a bound volume James Kirke Paulding, The Backwoodsman (Philadelphia: M. Thomas), a long poem in heroic couplets about a New York pioneer on the frontier in Kentucky Samuel Woodworth, The Poems, Odes, Songs, and Other Metrical Effusions, of Samuel Woodworth (New York: Abraham Asten and Matthias Lopez) Richard Henry Wilde, "My Life is Like the Summer Rose", John Greenleaf Whittier called it "a perfect poem" Works misdated as this year Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, originally Laon and Cythna (actually printed in December 1817 although the book states the year of publication as this year) Works published in other languages Kristijonas Donelaitis, The Seasons ("Metai" in Lithuanian), written about 1765–1775, is published in Königsberg Adam Mickiewicz, City Winter'' ("Zima miejska" in Polish), his first poem, is published in Vilnius Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 24 – John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar and hymnwriter (died 1866) April – Cecil Frances Alexander, née Humphreys, Anglo-Irish hymnwriter (died 1895) July 30 – Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1848) October 16 – William Forster, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales and poet (died 1882) October 22 – Leconte de Lisle, French Parnassian poet (died 1894) December 24 – Eliza Cook, English writer, poet and radical campaigner (died 1889) Date unknown: Alexander McLachlan, Scottish-born Canadian poet (died 1896) Charlotta Öberg, Swedish poet (died 1856) Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: May 14 or 16 – Matthew Lewis, English Gothic writer (born 1775) November 23 – John Williams, English satirist, journalist and poet, in the United States (born 1716) See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature 19th century in literature 19th century in poetry Romantic poetry Golden Age of Russian Poetry (1800–1850) Weimar Classicism period in Germany, commonly considered to have begun in 1788 and to have ended either in 1805, with the death of Friedrich Schiller, or