b. 1862d. 1912

Robert Cameron Rogers


Robert Cameron Rogers
Poet and magazine contributor Robert Cameron Rogers' text "The Rosary" became a popular song of American composer Ethelbert Nevin. "The Rosary" has also been set to music by many other composers. Image: Robert Cameron Rogers, The Bookman: An Illustrated Literary Journal, Vol. 1, No. 5, p. 308, June 1895, public domain

About

Born in Buffalo, New York, Roberts graduated from Yale in 1883. He wrote a dedicatory ode for the opening of the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition.

–Christie Finn Source: New York Times Obituary

Books

The Wind in the Clearing and Other Poems

Robert Cameron Rogers

Sheet Music