 | Ballads, English - 1911 - 406 pages
...fair body — She burnt like hollins green. 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 stalwart sons, And sent them o'er he sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1912 - 628 pages
...USHER'S WELL. [Sometimes printed as part of The Three Clerks o' Owsea/urd.} There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wile, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan... | |
 | American poetry - 1912 - 624 pages
...By the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie. Unknown THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL 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 ane, Whan word came to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her,... | |
 | Poetry - 1912 - 624 pages
...stalwart sons, And sent them o'er 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...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. The Wife of Usher's Well 2547 "I... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1912 - 1104 pages
...mair, I'd gie them a' to King Charlie ! ' 378. The tfife of Usher's "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. TVy hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her... | |
 | Emilie Kip Baker - Children's poetry - 1915 - 232 pages
...love but live no more. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she : She had three stout...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... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1916 - 368 pages
...sang to inarticulate moan Among her wildering whorls, forgetting him. 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 carlin wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her A week but barely three,... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - English literature - 1916 - 604 pages
...fourth verses rhymed. Here, for example, is a typical ballad stanza: — 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. Repetitions, interjections, and refrain characterize the oldest ballads, which were often so formed... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 566 pages
...Patrick Spence, Wi the Scots lords at his feit. 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 stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline 3 wife That... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart sons, And sent them oer the sea. 2. e whatever Power 955 Or Spirit of the nethermost Abyss Might in that noise re carline3 wife That her three sons were gane. 3. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely... | |
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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. 
