Born on this day – Ferdinand Schubert:

Ferdinand Schubert

Composer

October 18, 1794 – February 26, 1859

Compositions:

Filiae Regum; Hirtenmesse, op. 13; Messe F-Dur (1830), op. 10; Regina Coeli; Requiem, op. 9; Salve Regina, op. 12.

Born on this day – William Cullen Bryant:

William Cullen Bryant

Writer

November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878

Credits:

Poems:

A Forest Hymn; A Meditation on Rhode Island Coal; A Song of Pitcairn's Island; A Summer Ramble; A Walk at Sunset; A Winter Piece; After a Tempest; An Indian at the Burial-place of his Fathers; An Indian Story; Autumn Woods; Blessed are they that Mourn; Green River; Hymn of the City; Hymn of the Waldenses; Hymn to Death; Hymn to the North Star; I broke the spell that held me long; I cannot forget with what fervid devotion; Innocent child and snow-white flower; Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood; June; Lines on Revisiting the Country; March; Monument Mountain; No Man knoweth his Sepulchre; Ode for an Agricultural Celebration; Oh fairest of the rural maids; Rizpah; Romero; Scene on the Banks of the Hudson; Song of Marion's Men; Song of the Greek Amazon; Song of the Stars; Song.—Soon as the glazed and gleaming snow; Song—Dost thou idly ask to hear; Sonnet.—Midsummer; Sonnet.—Mutation; Sonnet.—November; Sonnet.—October; Sonnet.—To Cole, the Painter, departing for Europe; Sonnet.—William Tell; Spring in Town; Summer Wind; Thanatopsis; The African Chief; The Ages; The Arctic Lover; The Burial-place. A Fragment; The Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus; The Damsel of Peru; The Death of the Flowers; The Disinterred Warrior; The Evening Wind; The Gladness of Nature; The Greek Boy; The Greek Partisan; The Hunter's Serenade; The Hurricane; The Indian Girl's Lament; The Journey of Life; The Lapse of Time; The Massacre at Scio; The Murdered Traveller; The New Moon; The Old Man's Funeral; The Past; The Prairies; The Rivulet; The Skies; The Twenty-second of December; The Two Graves; The West Wind; The Yellow Violet; To a Cloud; To a Musquito; To a Waterfowl; To the fringed Gentian; To the River Arve; Upon the mountain's distant head; When the firmament quivers with daylight's young beam.