 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 been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.  The Works of Walter Scott, Esq - Page 31by Walter Scott - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Ernest Edwin Speight - 1900 - 328 pages
...O'er his white bones, when they are bare, The wind sail blaw for evermair. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. The hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline * wife, That her... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1901 - 360 pages
...Marie's quier. Out of the tane there grew a birk, And the tither a bonnie brier. 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, When word came to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1901 - 1190 pages
...But though I had an hunder mair, I'd gie them a' to King Charlie ! ' 378. The Wife of Usher's ffell ""THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, * And a wealthy...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, English - 1902 - 436 pages
...superstitions regarding the return of ghosts, see Fraser's Golden Bough, iii. 85-87.] THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barelv ane, When word came to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. ni They hadna been a... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1902 - 538 pages
...tragic development in « Babylon.* THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL I. nHERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, np I And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carlin1 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | James Pinckney Kinard - Ballads, English - 1902 - 138 pages
...grew her cheeks, she closed her een, Stretched her soft limbs, and dy'd. 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 oer the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That... | |
 | Thomas Finlayson Henderson - Ballads, English - 1902 - 436 pages
...superstitions regarding the return of ghosts, see Eraser's Golden Bough, iii. 85-87.] THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. n They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife, That... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, English - 1902 - 436 pages
...regarding the return of ghosts, see Eraser's Golden Bough, iii. 85-87.] THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERK lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. n They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife, That... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 468 pages
...character. It has been used to complete the better known Clerk of Oxenford. 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, When word came to the careline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - English language - 1903 - 408 pages
...Ah, reverend sir, not I.' The beginning of ROBERT BROWNING'S Confessions. D 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, When word cam' to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her... | |
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