 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.  The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott - Page 147by Walter Scott - 1842 - 699 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - Ballads, English - 1890 - 262 pages
...And sent them o'er the sea. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word cam' to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane....week from her, A week but barely three, When word cam' to the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see. " I wish the wind may never cease, Nor fashes... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 384 pages
...bowers Were barren as this moorland hill. SCOTT. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL THERE lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...carline wife, That her three sons were gane. They had not been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife ' I wish... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1891 - 816 pages
...bowers Were barren as this moorland hill. SCOTT. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL 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 gone. They had not been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Children's poetry - 1892 - 328 pages
...bowers Were barren as this moorland hill. SCOTT. 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, They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife, That her... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1893 - 650 pages
...USHER'S WELL. [Sometimes printed as part of The Three Clerts o' Owstitford.] There hved 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,... | |
 | George Eyre-Todd - 1893 - 344 pages
...strange and powerful ballad appeared in Scott's Minstrelsy of the Border.] 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 carline1 wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but... | |
 | Ballads - 1893 - 700 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,... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - Ballads, English - 1894 - 586 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...to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. 3. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carlin wife That... | |
 | David Simpson Graham - 1894 - 218 pages
...was the reply. " Well, well, sing thy song, pretty one ! " he said. "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. With a heigho, a lily, lily gay, Fine flowers i' the valley. There came three singers to the gates,... | |
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