 | Emilie Kip Baker - 1915 - 232 pages
...the azure sky When they love but live no more. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. • They had not been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 pages
...sea-ways lone Changed all he sang to inarticulate moan Among her wildering whorls, forgetting him. THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy wife was...a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carlin wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her A week but barely... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pages
...thair lies guid Sir Patrick Spence, Wi the Scots lords at his feit. THE WIFE OF USHER'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, When word came to the carline3 wife That... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...with the second and fourth verses rhymed. Here, for example, is a typical ballad stanza: — There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. Repetitions, interjections, and refrain characterize the oldest ballads, which were often so formed... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pages
...Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. 2. e whatever Power 955 Or Spirit of the nethermost Abyss Might in t came to the carline3 wife That her three sons were gane. 3. They hadna been a week from her, A week... | |
 | William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - 1916 - 470 pages
...falls na sooner down Than ay it is full weet* 6» THE WIFE OF USHER 1 THERE lived a wife at UshCr's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart son* And sent them oer the sea. 2 They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 268 pages
...extraordinary pitch of tension. Repetitions often have something of an incantatory effect in the ballads: They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came back to the carh'ne wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week... | |
 | William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - 1916 - 460 pages
...sheet; The dew it falls na sooner down Than ay it is full weet.' 60 THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL 1 THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and slalwart sons And sent them oer the sea. 2 They Iiadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane,... | |
 | James J. Wilhelm - 1990 - 366 pages
...arms — And I in my bed again! E. SCOTTISH-ENGLISH BALLADS [291] The Wife of Usher's Well 1. There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely one, Whan word came to the carlin wife That her... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...shall have a sheep (1. 17 — 18) AIW; AmFP; ErPo; ErPo; OBET; OxNR The Wife of Usher's Well 306 There "... Me miserable! which way shall I (1. 1—4) 307 The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin worm doth chide; Gin we be mist... | |
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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... 
