最初在欧洲有口皆碑的美国诗里面，有一首是威廉·卡伦·布莱恩特（1794-1878）在一八一五年写的，歌唱那种常见的水鸟。

• One of the first American poems to be widely praised in Europe, written by William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) in 1815, was addressed to that ubiquitous bird, the water-fowl.