 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - Страниц: 348
...at the heart, and I fain 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...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... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - Страниц: 376
...sudden sally, And 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...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 - 1906 - Страниц: 844
...their hearts for thee.' 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 - 1907 - Страниц: 390
...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 word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. " They had na been a week from her, A week but barely three,... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1908 - Страниц: 252
...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 - 1909 - Страниц: 892
...spear, For I have seen the false mermaid.' RESTORATION VERSE igi. The Wife of Usher's Well "INHERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, •*• And a wealthy...her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three,... | |
 | Kate Gordon - 1909 - Страниц: 330
...Cheviot within days thre, 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...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,... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - 1909 - Страниц: 244
...the hongerey worms I sleep. 15. " Cold meal is my covering owre, THE WIFE OF USHEE'S WELL 1. THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That... | |
 | Rose Adelaide Witham, William Allan Neilson - 1909 - Страниц: 240
...Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. 3. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1910 - Страниц: 284
...hearty cheer, And she'll never get mair o' me, O." THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL (Child, vol. iii.) THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three,... | |
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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... 
