 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1860 - 368 pages
...fragment of The Clerk's Two, Sons o} Ow~ senford. See the second volume of this collection, page 63. THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...them o'er the sea. They 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... | |
 | William Motherwell - Ballads, Scots - 1864 - 380 pages
...two additional stanzas, from recitation, in Peeblesshire, which are here inserted within brackets. THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy...came to the carline wife That her three sons were gana They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife,... | |
 | William Allingham - Ballads, English - 1865 - 456 pages
...Adieu, dear love, to thee ! ' And for the words the Queen had spoke Did brave Young Waters dee. IX of 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 ane, When word cam' to the carline wife That... | |
 | William Allingham - Ballads, English - 1865 - 458 pages
...spoke Did brave Young Waters dee. IX THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL I HPHERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, -L And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. 2 They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word cam' to the carline wife That her... | |
 | Scottish border - 1869 - 624 pages
...for thee." 1 Wee knowe -Little hillock. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. A FRAGMENT. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...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 her, A week but... | |
 | Ballads - 1871 - 692 pages
...Owaenford— Part Second." The explanatory notes [marked S.] are from the pen of Sir Walter Scott. 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 ane, When word came back to the carline wife,... | |
 | William Allingham - Ballads, English - 1872 - 444 pages
...to thee ! ' And for the words the Queen had spoke Did brave Young Waters dee. IX iJBtfe of 3Ksijer's THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; 2 They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word cam' to the carline wife That... | |
 | William Ritchie MacFadyen - 1873 - 72 pages
...eerieness and terror of the apparition described. The " Wife of Usher's Well" may illustrate this: There lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy...to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. ****** It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came... | |
 | William Motherwell - Ballads, English - 1873 - 554 pages
...lief. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. This fragment is given from the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border." THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy...her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carlinewife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...cap, , 55 And white owl's feather ! W. Allingham 28 Lights, the Aurora *54* THE WIFE OF USHER 'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy...and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They had not been a week from her, 5 A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline -wife That her... | |
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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... 
