 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
 | Ludwig Herrig - English literature - 1906 - 844 pages
...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 - Ballads - 1907 - 392 pages
...repetition gives an emphatic effect : 2 — " They had na been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the 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 - Ballads - 1907 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Morris Hart - Ballads - 1907 - 340 pages
...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... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - Folklore - 1908 - 252 pages
...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... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...spear, For I have seen the false mermaid.' RESTORATION VERSE igi. The Wife of Usher's Well "INHERE 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,... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Ballads, English - 1909 - 244 pages
...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... | |
 | Kate Gordon - Aesthetics - 1909 - 330 pages
...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,... | |
 | Rose Adelaide Witham, William Allan Neilson - Ballads, English - 1909 - 240 pages
...Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely...to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. 3. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan word came to the carlin wife That... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...winding sheet; The dew it falls na sooner down Then ay it is full weet." 27 THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline1 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three,... | |
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