 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 348 pages
...wald lie down." 20 Scott, Minst. Scot. Bord. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, 5 A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 352 pages
...stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife, That her three sons...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, "> Whan word came to the carline wife, That her sons she 'd never see. " I wish the wind may never... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - English language - 1905 - 376 pages
...sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. TENNYSON : The Brook. There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. The Wife of Usher's Well 3. Quatrain of iambic pentameters, rhyming alternately abab. This is the stanza... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...144 THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. [From Seatt-t Miiutreliy H, 111 (1802)] There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, 4 And sent them o'er the sea. The hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - Ballads - 1907 - 390 pages
...to the end. In shorter compass, incremental repetition gives an emphatic effect: * — " They had na been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When...carline wife That her three sons were gane. " They had na been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife That her sons... | |
 | Walter Morris Hart - Ballads - 1907 - 340 pages
...Wife of Usher's Well (79) and Fair Margaret and Sweet William (74) death is suggested by periphrasis. Word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane (st. 2), That her sons she'd never see (st. 3). The ballad is notably fond of periphrasis: — for... | |
 | Walter Morris Hart - Ballads - 1907 - 344 pages
...Wife of Usher's Well (79) and Fair Margaret and Sweet William (74) death is suggested by periphrasis. Word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane (st. 2), That her sons she'd ne'ver see (st. 3). The ballad is notably fond of periphrasis: — for... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - Folklore - 1908 - 252 pages
...Yarrow"; in others it is heather. There was a wife who dwelt by Usher's Wells in ballad story— " A wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons And sent them o'er the sea." They returned to her from the dead and in their hats were branches from a birch. " It neither grew in syke... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...the false mermaid.' RESTORATION VERSE igi. The Wife of Usher's Well "INHERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, •*• And a wealthy wife was she; She had...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan word came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. 'I wish the wind may never cease,... | |
 | Kate Gordon - Aesthetics - 1909 - 330 pages
...In the magger of doughty Douglas, And all that ever with him be, etc. There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea, etc. The modern reader is captivated by the directness and simplicity with which the old ballad begins,... | |
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There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna been a week from her, « A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. 
