John Rudolph Sutermeister

John Rudolph Sutermeister (March 16, 1803 – January 16, 1826) was an American jurist and poet.

Life

Sutermeister was baptized at a Lutheran church in Curaçao, his birthplace on 17 April 1803.

Work

In 1824 Sutermeister wrote an Ode to Linnæus, which was also published in the American Farmer

The same year, he wrote the poem To a Humming Bird, which was published in John Keese's The Poets of America as well as in Anthony Benezet Cleveland's Studies in Poetry and Prose

A year later, he wrote The Garden; his poems were published as Minor Poems (including A Contrasted Picture, The Lament (or A Lament), Faded Hours (The Careless Lover's Adieu) and in the Syracuse Gazette.

Poems (selection)

Ode to Linnæus. Celebration at Flushing, of the Birth-Day of Linnaeus. New-York Branch of the Linnaean Society of Paris, 1824, p. 14 (description at the Digital Public Library of America) Published also in: American Farmer, no. 21, vol. 6, Baltimore, 13 August 1824, p. 161 (online) To a Humming Bird. (originally appeared in 1824) (Excerpt) Published in: John Keese: The Poets of America, volume 1, S. Colman, 1840, p. 124-125. And in: A. B. Cleveland: Studies in Poetry and Prose: Consisting of Selections Principally from American Writers, and Designed for the Highest Class in Schools. W. and J. Neal, 1832, p. 360. The Garden. (1825) Minor Poems. A Contrasted Picture. (, p. 72-73.) The Lament or A Lament. (Digitalized by Gutenberg.org, including biographical background) (, p. 73-74.) Faded Hours. (, p. 74-75.) (Rufus Wilmot Griswold: The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. A. Hart, 1852, p. 545.) The Careless Lover's Adieu