The following examples are the opening lines from Sir Walter Scott's "Proud Maisie" (1818) (note the impersonal narrator and ballad stanza), and an excerpt from Wordsworth's "We Are Seven" (1798) (a ballad which is "lyrical" because the speaker is personal):
Proud Maisie is in the wood
Walking so early;
Sweet Robin sits on the bush,
Singing so rarely.
"Tell me, thou bonny bird,
When shall I marry me?"--
"When six braw gentlemen
Kirkward shall carry ye."
* * * * * *I met a little cottage Girl:
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head.