| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 346 páginas
...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...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 348 páginas
...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 - 376 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 352 páginas
...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... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 páginas
...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 - 390 páginas
...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 - 1907 - 344 páginas
...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... | |
| Walter Morris Hart - 1907 - 340 páginas
...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... | |
| Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1908 - 252 páginas
...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 - 892 páginas
...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...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,... | |
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