"On Pitz Languard" and "The Sphinx of the Tuileries" are part of the second section called "Wanderlieder."
"On Pitz Languard" and "The Sphinx of the Tuileries" are part of the second section called "Wanderlieder." A woman named Elsie and her kisses are remembered in "How it Happened," while the longish pseudo-epic "Guy of the Temple" ends the collection. According to Bayard Taylor they took their name from a California term for Missouri immigrants and the most popular ones featured such lines as "Through the hot, black breath of the burnin' boat/ Jim Bludso's voice was heard," and "I want a chaw of terbacker/ And that's whats the matter with me." Featuring such poems as "Banty Tim" and "Little Breeches" [*] its author followed up their success with the publication of his novel The Breadwinners. FTP identify this collection of poems by a future secretary of state, a pioneering work of regional literature, by John Hay.
"On Pitz Languard" and "The Sphinx of the Tuileries" are part of the second section called "Wanderlieder."
{Pike County Ballads}