...my bed soon; For I 'm sick at the heart, and I fain wald lie down." *• Scott, Minst. Scot. Bard. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's...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,...

...make my bed soon; For I 'm sick 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...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...

...make a 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...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...

...Breaking 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Of 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...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,...

...among 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...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...