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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, Whan word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane. "
The Works of Walter Scott, Esq - Page 31
by Walter Scott - 1806
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and ..., Volume 3

Scott - 1821 - 516 pages
...heaven, " That I gae maiden hamc !" THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. A FRAGMENT. XEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. THERK lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carlinc wife, They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: consisting of historical and ..., Volume 3

Scottish border - 1821 - 504 pages
...heaven, " That I gae maiden hame !" THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. A FRAGMENT. KKVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. THERK lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was...They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely anc, When word came to the carline wife, They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three,...
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Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Volume 10

William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1826 - 850 pages
...now copy one of the ghostly legends : " The Wife of VArïs »VU " Theredwalt a wife at Ushers-well. A wealthy wife was she. She had three stout and stalwart sons, And »ent them o'er the sea. The wind blew east, the wind blew wot« The sea was in a faem, And »air the...
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Minstrelsy: ancient and modern, with an historical intr. and notes, by W ...

Minstrelsy - 1827 - 566 pages
...lief. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. This fragment is given from the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border." THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy...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 been a week from her,...
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Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction and Notes

William Motherwell - 1827 - 566 pages
...THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. This fragment is given from the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.' THBRE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy wife was...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 been a week from her,...
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His ..., Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 pages
...!" — THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. A FRAGMENT. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. THERE lived a wife at Ushnr's Well, And a wealthy wife was she, She had three stout...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 been a week from her,...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott: First Series, Containing Minstrelsy ...

Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 pages
...BEFOBE FCBL1SHCD. TOCB. PIANO FORTE. There lived a wife at Usher's well, And a weallhy wife was she; She There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a -wealthy...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 been a week from her,...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott

Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 pages
...!" — THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. A FRAGMENT. NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. THERB lived a wife at Ushnr's Well, And a wealthy wife was she, She had three stout...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 been a week from her,...
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Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and Scotland

Richard John King - 1842 - 352 pages
...Binnorie. WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. Border Minstrelsy, vol. iii. p. 258. lived a wife at Usher's Well, A And a wealthy wife was she, She had three stout and...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 been a week from her,...
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Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern: With an Historical Introduction ..., Volume 1

William Motherwell - 1846 - 300 pages
...dye. THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. This fragment is given from the " Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border." THERE lived a wife at Usher's well, And a wealthy...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 been a week from her,...
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