Charles Godfrey Leland

Poems (4)

• El Capitan-General

  There was a captain-general who ruled in Vera Cruz, / And what we used to hear of him was always evil news: …

• Hans Breitmann’s Party

  Hans Breitmann gife a barty, / Dey had biano-blayin; …

• Ritter Hugo

  Der noble Ritter Hugo / Von Schwillensanfenstein …

• The Two Friends

  I have two friends—two glorious friends—two better could not be, / And every night when midnight tolls they meet to laugh with me. …