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 - Página 147por Walter Scott - 1842 - 699 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - 1916 - 470 páginas
...falls na sooner down Than ay it is full weet* 6» THE WIFE OF USHER 1 THERE lived a wife at UshCr's Well, And a wealthy wife was she; She had three stout and stalwart son* And sent them oer the sea. 2 They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word... | |
| Guido Hermann Stempel - 1917 - 412 páginas
...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...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 carline wife That... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1918 - 624 páginas
...USHER'S WELL. [Sometimes printed as part of The Three Clerks o Ows.enford.} There lived a wife at Usher's Well, And a wealthy wife was she ; She had three stout...to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane. ... '..••.. i.. ' fUliir.i, They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, Whan word... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 268 páginas
...extraordinary pitch of tension. Repetitions often have something of an incantatory effect in the ballads: They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came back to the carh'ne wife That her three sons were gane. They hadna been a week from her, A week but... | |
| William Allan Neilson, Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster - 1916 - 460 páginas
...na sooner down Than ay it is full weet.' 60 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 slalwart sons And sent them oer the sea. 2 They Iiadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane,... | |
| James J. Wilhelm - 1990 - 366 páginas
...again! E. SCOTTISH-ENGLISH BALLADS [291] 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 the sea. 2. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely one, Whan word came to the carlin wife That her... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...— 18) AIW; AmFP; ErPo; ErPo; OBET; OxNR The Wife of Usher's Well 306 There lived a wife at Usher's h way shall I (1. 1—4) 307 The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin worm doth chide; Gin we be mist... | |
| Sandra M Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Diana Ohehir - 1995 - 386 páginas
...gasped — Oh, what a livid boon! EMILY DICKINSON The Wife of Usher's Well 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,... | |
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