shower" "I travelled among unknown men" United States Richard Alsop, with Lemuel Hopkins and Theodore Dwight, The Political Greenhouse Joseph Hopkinson, "Hail Columbia", a popular patriotic song, written during the war fever against France William Munford, Poems and Prose on Several Occasions, including a tragedy, translations from Horace, versifications of Ossian Judith Sargent Murray, The Gleaner Robert Treat Paine, Jr., "Adams and Liberty", the author's most famous work, sung throughout the country; praising America's independence from European tyranny Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, Versification of President Washington's Excellent Farewell-Address Other Ivan Kotliarevsky, Eneyida (Енеїда), Ukrainian Johann von Goethe, Hermann und Dorothea, Germany Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 5 – David Macbeth Moir (died 1851), Scottish March 30 – Luise Hensel (died 1876), German April 8 – Dionysios Solomos Διονύσιος Σολωμός (died 1857), Greek poet best known for the Hymn to Liberty, the first two stanzas of which become the Greek national anthem April 19 – Andrea Maffei (died 1885), Italian poet, translator and librettist June 18 – McDonald Clarke (died 1842), American June 29 – Count Giacomo Leopardi (died 1837), Italian September 20 – Samuel Henry Dickson (died 1872), American poet, physician, writer and educator December 24 – Adam Mickiewicz (died 1855), Polish Romantic poet c. 1798–1800 – Charles Jeremiah Wells (died 1879), English Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April 11 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler (born 1724), German poet May 28 – Mary Alcock (born 1742), English poet, essayist and philanthropist October 14 – Robert Merry (born 1755), English poet and dilettante, died in the United States. November 23 – David Samwell, known as Dafydd Ddu Feddyg (born 1751), Welsh naval surgeon and poet Also: Edmund Gardner (born c. 1752), English St. John Honeywood (born 1763), American Waris Shah (born 1722), Punjabi Sufi poet See also Poetry List of years in poetry List of years in literature 18th century in literature 18th century in poetry Romantic poetry Notes Poetry 18th-century poetry