 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
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...and bridled and booted rade he; Toom hame cam the saddle, but never cam he. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. n with eagles' wings; And just as I became assured...found myself outside the hill, Left alone against m When word came to the carline4 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Ballads, English - 1910 - 284 pages
...wi' hearty cheer, And she'll never get mair o' me, O." THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL (Child, vol. iii.) 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,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English Poetry Translations From Gaelic - 1910 - 966 pages
...! For he pull'd up the bonnie brier, An' flang 't in St. Marie's Loch. 57. 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 back to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...Toom hame cam the saddle, but never cam he. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. There lived a wife at Usher 's prize, honour you. MIR. T am a fool To weep at what When word came to the carline4 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 492 pages
...winding sheet; The dew it falls na sooner down Then ay it is full weet." 77 THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. They hadna heen a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline1 wife That her three sons... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 268 pages
...effect in the ballads: They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came back to the carline wife That her three sons were gane....hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife That her sons she'd never see. The stanza is generally the simple... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - English poetry - 1916 - 460 pages
...winding 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 - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 366 pages
...in my 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...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 - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...you shall have a sheep (1. 17 — 18) AIW; AmFP; ErPo; ErPo; OBET; OxNR The Wife of Usher's Well 306 OBS 66 "... 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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