Mr. Anonymous shall, to his sorrow
And your satisfaction, receive the reward
Of his graceless trick with the hempen cord.
Adelbert von Chamisso, German author and poet, came of an old French family. His principal work is in prose, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the man who sold his shadow.
An amusing poem is in nonsense vein.
THE PIGTAIL
There lived a sage in days of yore,
And he a handsome pigtail wore;
But wondered much, and sorrowed more,
Because it hung behind him.