 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry, English - 1877 - 326 pages
...feather ! W. Allinsham 28 Lights, the Aurora 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, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...USHER'S WELL. [Sometimes printed as part of The Three Clerks o' Owsatfard.] There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan word came to the carline wife, That her sons she 'd never see. ' I wish the wind may never cease,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...WELL. [Sometimes printed as part of The Three Clerks o' Chusenford.] There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife, They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan word came to the carline wife, That... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...USHER'S WELL. [Sometimes printed as part of The Three Clerls o' Owsenford.] There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife, They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan word came to the carline wife, That... | |
 | Mowbray Walter Morris - 1882 - 424 pages
...will choose to live. J. Milton. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL, (Old Ballad.) THBEB lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word come to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1886 - 290 pages
...recitation of an old woman residing near Kirkhill, in West Lothian. 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 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... | |
 | 1886 - 590 pages
...wealthy wife was she ; She bad three Btout and stalwart sons, And sent them o'er the sea. They had na been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the oarline wife That her three sons were gane. They had na been a week from her, A week but barely three,... | |
 | Francis James Child - Ballads, English - 1886 - 308 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,... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1889 - 552 pages
...love. EB BROWNING 1 See note 1, p. 28. 31.— THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word cam' to the carline l wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - Ballads, English - 1890 - 266 pages
...And I nae mair maun toddle about the tree. THE WIFE 0F USHER'S WELL. THEKE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word cam' to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but... | |
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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. 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. 
