 I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood! ' It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 147by Walter Scott - 1842 - 699 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Barton Gummere - Ballads - 1907 - 388 pages
...the "Wife of Usher's Well :" — " ' I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood. Til! my three sons come hame to me In earthly flesh and blood.' " That old woman, again, who kneels on the plank over black water, and bans Robin Hood,3 is impressive... | |
 | Scotland - 1908 - 562 pages
...crime. It may be unfair, but one cannot refrain from a comparison of the ' Wife of Usher's Well': 4 It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang...sons came hame, And their hats were o' the birk,' with the Shirburn substitute : ' Miraculous newes from the cittie of Holdt in Germany, where there... | |
 | Scotland - 1908 - 592 pages
...crime. It may be unfair, but one cannot refrain from a comparison of the ' Wife of Usher's Well': ' It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came haine, And their hats were o' the birk,' with the Shirburn substitute : ' Miraculous newes from the... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. 'I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood!' It fell about the Martinmass, Whan nights are lang and mirk, The carlin wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were... | |
 | William Allan Neilson - Ballads, English - 1909 - 244 pages
...to the carlin wife That her sons she 'd never see. 4. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood." 5. It fell about the Martinmass, When nights are lang and mirk, The carlin wife's three sons came hame,... | |
 | Rose Adelaide Witham, William Allan Neilson - Ballads, English - 1909 - 240 pages
...earthly flesh and blood." 5. It fell about the Martinmass, When nights are lang and mirk, The carlin wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o the birk. 6. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony shengh ; But at the gates o Paradise, That birk... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. ' I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes" victory! Now's the day, and now's the hoar; See the front o' battle lour; See approach proud Ed Martinmass«, When nights are lang and mirk', 1 weeping full sore 2 tearing a empty 4 old 5 troubles... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Ballads, English - 1910 - 284 pages
...came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood ! " It fell about the Martinmass, Whan nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats... | |
 | English poetry - 1910 - 498 pages
...came to the carlin wife That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes* in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood." It fell about the Martinmass, When nights are lang and mirk' The carlin wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1910 - 974 pages
...came to the carline wife That her sons she 'd never see. ' I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fishes in the flood, Till my three sons come hame to me, In earthly flesh and blood ! ' 56. plat, knit together. 57. carline, rustic. It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang... | |
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