 | 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... | |
 | 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 three, Whan word came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. 'I wish the wind may never cease,... | |
 | 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 ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. 3. 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 three, Whan word came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease,... | |
 | 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...the hill, Left alone against my will, To go noiy lim carline4 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...hadna been a week from 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,... | |
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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... 
