 | Frank Sidgwick - 1904 - 272 Seiten
...pin : ' O lang may ye hing, my mother's mantel, Or ye hap us again ! ' THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL 1. THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That... | |
 | Alice Meynell - 1904 - 388 Seiten
...on me she cries ; And I am weary of the skies, Since my Love died for me. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WEUL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well And a wealthy wife...She had three stout and stalwart sons. And sent them over the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carlin... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse - 1904 - 238 Seiten
...character. It has been used to complete the better known Clerk of Oxcnford. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was slje, She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - 1905 - 352 Seiten
...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 Well, And a wealthy...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 Seiten
...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 Well, And a wealthy...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1907 - 390 Seiten
...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 - 340 Seiten
...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 - 1907 - 344 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
