There was a group of American poets associated with New England in the 19th-century. The Bostonian poet who wrote The Sermon of St. Francis was popular among readers then.
 He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy", and was one of the five Fireside Poets from New England. 
The Fireside Poets  also known as the Schoolroom or Household Poets  were a group of 19th-century American poets associated with New England. 
"The Sermon of St. Francis" is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882). 
