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Charles G. Leland
August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903
Poetry Listing
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| | Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: | A Ballad Apout de Rowdies | De moon shines ofer de cloudlens, | | 48 | 1566 | | 2: | Am Rhein. - No. II. Im Kahn | Am Rhein! Acain am Rheine! In boat oopon der Rhein! | | 72 | 930 | | 3: | Am Rhein. - No. III. (Index) - Nonnenwerth. | He shtood peside de Kloster-place, | | 40 | 984 | | 4: | Ballad | Der noble Ritter Hugo Von Schwillensaufenstein, | | 40 | 924 | | 5: | Breitmann About Town | Der Schwackenhammer coom to down, | | 144 | 892 | | 6: | Breitmann am Rhein - Cologne | How wunderschön das Vaterland | | 112 | 955 | | 7: | Breitmann and the Turners | Hans Breitmann shoined de Turners, | | 72 | 934 | | 8: | Breitmann as a Bummer | Der Sheneral Sherman holts oop on his coorse, | | 115 | 940 | | 9: | Breitmann As An Uhlan I. The Vision. | Beer I bear to thee, Battle’s great apple-tree! | | 121 | 857 | | 10: | Breitmann As An Uhlan. II. Breitmann in a Balloon | Who vas efer hear soosh voonders, | | 152 | 912 | | 11: | Breitmann As An Uhlan. III. Breitmann and Bouilli | Vot roombles down de Bergstrass? | | 112 | 883 | | 12: | Breitmann As An Uhlan. IV. Breitmann Takes the Town of Nancy | O hear a wondrous shdory Vot soundet like romance, | | 112 | 762 | | 13: | Breitmann As An Uhlan. V. Breitmann in Bivouac | He sits in bivouacke, By fire, peneat’ de drees; | | 80 | 769 | | 14: | Breitmann As An Uhlan. VI. Breitmann’s Last Party | Vot gollops at mitnight, Mit h’roolah and yell, | | 149 | 719 | | 15: | Breitmann in Battle | I dinks I’ll go a vightin’” outshpoke der Breitemann. | | 160 | 753 | | 16: | Breitmann in Belgium - Gent | If I hat gold, as I hafe time, | | 37 | 758 | | 17: | Breitmann in Belgium - Spa | Vhen sommer drees shake fort deir leafs, | | 128 | 768 | | 18: | Breitmann in Forty-Eight | Dere woned once a studente, | | 144 | 713 | | 19: | Breitmann In Holland | To Amsterd-m came Breitmann | | 104 | 923 | | 20: | Breitmann In Holland - Leyden | Tis shveet to valk in Holland towns | | 56 | 758 | | 21: | Breitmann In Holland - Scheveningen, or de Maiden’s Coorse | Het vas Mijn Heer van Torenborg, | | 112 | 839 | | 22: | Breitmann in Kansas | Hans Breitmann vent to Kansas: | | 90 | 789 | | 23: | Breitmann in La Sorbonne | Der Breitmann sits in la Sorbonne, | | 48 | 737 | | 24: | Breitmann in Maryland | Der Breitmann mit his gompany | | 106 | 798 | | 25: | Breitmann in Paris | Der teufel’s los in Bal Mabille, | 1869 | 78 | 739 | | 26: | Breitmann in Politics I. The Nomination | Vhen ash de var vas ober, | | 80 | 769 | | 27: | Breitmann in Rome | Dere’s lighds oopon de Appian, | | 144 | 723 | | 28: | Breitmann in Turkey | Derr Breitmann hear im Turkenreich | | 168 | 755 | | 29: | Breitmann Interviews the Pope | Von efenin ash der Breitmann vent from his weinhaus vinkin, | | 87 | 1740 | | 30: | Breitmann’s Going to Church. | D’vas near de state of Nashfille, | | 330 | 772 | | 31: | Breitmann’s Last Ballads - Cobus Hagelstein | Ich bin ein Deutscher, und mein name is Cobus Hagelstein, | | 88 | 772 | | 32: | Breitmann’s Last Ballads - Fritzerl Schnall | Ash on de Alapama biz, Deep sinnin long I sat, | | 99 | 830 | | 33: | Breitmann’s Last Ballads - The Gypsy Lover | Dot vos a schwartz Zigeuner | | 32 | 782 | | 34: | Breitmann’s Last Ballads - The Magic Shoes | It was stiller, dimmer twilight | 1888 | 208 | 734 | | 35: | Breitmann’s Last Ballads Dornenlieder | For efery Rose dot ploome in spring, | | 61 | 707 | | 36: | Breitmann’s Sleigh-Ride | Ven de winter make oos shifer | | 88 | 721 | | 37: | Der Freischütz | Wie gehts, my frendts if you’ll allow | | 128 | 776 | | 38: | Die Schöne Wittwe | Vot de yankee chap sung. DAT pooty liddle vidow | | 46 | 754 | | 39: | Frankfort-on-the-Main | Mine tress-goat is shpouted, mine tress-goat aint hier, | | 29 | 724 | | 40: | Gambrinus | In a field of goldnen parley | | 109 | 763 | | 41: | Hans Breitmann’s Barty. | Hans Breitmann gife a barty; | | 48 | 699 | | 42: | Hans Breitmann’s Christmas | D vas on Weihnachtsabend | | 256 | 845 | | 43: | I Gili Romaneskro - A Gipsy Ballad | I hear de gock a growin! | | 33 | 716 | | 44: | La Scala Santa | In San Gianni Lateran, Dey’ve cot a flight of shdairs, | | 40 | 735 | | 45: | Love Song | O vere mine lofe a sugar-powl, | | 40 | 802 | | 46: | Ostende | Boon tidings to der Breitmann came | | 48 | 764 | | 47: | Schnitzerl’s Philosopede | Herr Schnitzerl make a ph’losopede, | | 348 | 661 | | 48: | Steinli Von Slang | Der watchman look out from his tower | | 216 | 759 | | 49: | The First Edition of Breitmann - Showing How and Why It Was That It Never Appeared | Uns ist in alten Maeren wunders viel geseit | | 241 | 807 | | 50: | The Legend Of Heinz Von Stein | Out rode from his wild, dark castle | | 24 | 126 | | 51: | The Picnic | De Picknock oud at Spraker’s Wood: | | 68 | 751 | | 52: | To a Friend Studying German | Vill’st dou learn die Deutsche Sprache? | 1870 | 70 | 723 | | 53: | Wein Geist | I stoompled oud ov a dafern, | | 60 | 1007 | | 54: | ’S Gravenhage - The Hague | Hans reitet troo de Nederland, | | 32 | 749 |
About:
Charles Godfrey Leland was an American humorist and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University and in Europe.
Leland worked in journalism, travelled extensively, and became interested in folklore and folk linguistics, publishing books and articles on American and European languages and folk traditions. Leland worked in a wide variety of trades, achieved recognition as the author of the comic Hans Breitmann’s Ballads, fought in two conflicts, and wrote what was to become a primary source text for Neopaganism half a century later, Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches.
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