| Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1860 - 368 pages
...Sons o} Ow~ senford. See the second volume of this collection, page 63. THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she, She had three stout...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
...recitation, in Peeblesshire, which are here inserted within brackets. THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy wife was she : She had three stout...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
...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 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... | |
| 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
...hillock. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. A FRAGMENT. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she, She had three stout...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
...explanatory notes [marked S.] are from the pen of Sir Walter Scott. 1 THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, 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 came back to the carline wife,... | |
| William Ritchie MacFadyen - 1873 - 72 pages
...apparition described. The " Wife of Usher's Well" may illustrate this: There lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...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
...This fragment is given from the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border." THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy wife was she : She had three stout...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
...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 wife was she : She had three stout...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... | |
| Alexander Whitelaw - Ballads, Scots - 1875 - 620 pages
...wife at Usher*! well. And a wealthy wife wa* she ; She bxd three stout and stalwart son«. And Bent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely aoe, When word came tu the carllne wife. That her three «on« were gane. They hadna been a week frum... | |
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