Home! Sweet Home!
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"Home! Sweet Home!" is a song adapted from American actor and dramatist John Howard Payne's 1823 opera Clari, or the Maid of Milan. The song's melody was composed by Englishman Henry Bishop with lyric
Wrought iron railing with the music of the song "Home Sweet Home" in Fredericksburg, Virginia
Home Sweet Home door knocker
John Howard Payne
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John Howard Payne was an American actor, poet, playwright, and writer who had nearly two decades of a theatrical career and success in London. He is today most remembered as the creator of "Home! Swee
Home! Sweet Home!
…Home! Sweet Home!" is a song adapted from American actor and dramatist John Howard Payne's 1823 opera Clari, or the Maid of Milan. The song's melody was composed by Englishman Henry Bishop with lyrics by Payne. Bishop had earlier published…
Portrait by John Wesley Jarvis, c. 1812
Portrait of Payne in an 1892 publication
John Howard Payne's memorial stone in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.