 | Lawrence W. Levine - Education - 1997 - 236 pages
...and politicians. Hart also found room for a number of popular songs and poems such as The Old Oaken Bucket: How dear to this heart are the scenes of my...orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wild wood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew . . . The early twentieth-century anthologies tended to be similarly... | |
 | Catharine Parr Traill - Fiction - 1999 - 239 pages
...in the backwoods of Canada. "WESTOVE," LAKEFIELD, September 20, 1894. PLEASANT DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD "How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,...presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew."1 THERE is something almost magical... | |
 | Stuart Feder - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 218 pages
...song, The Old Oaken Bucket, whose first words reveal the source of inspiration for Ives's own text, "How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood. When fond recollection presents them to view." Taps too is quoted, as well as Irving Berlin's Ouer There, one of Ives's rare citations of a twentieth-century... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...became the hit song of 1 826 and remained popular for much of the nineteenth century. How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection...to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew, The wide-spreading pond and the mill that stood... | |
 | Howard Mansfield - Historic preservation - 2001 - 310 pages
...poem is a "tear of regret" for the cool waters of his boyhood well back in Scituate, Massachusetts. How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood....presents them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood. And every loved spot which my infancy knew.... The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound... | |
 | Ken Tate, Janice Tate - Poetry - 2001 - 164 pages
...and wake not, Dearest sister, do not weep. The Old Oaken Bucket Bv Samuel Woodworth How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood. When fond recollection...presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew, The wide-spreading pond and the... | |
 | Richard Crawford - History - 2001 - 1000 pages
...manner of Moore and Foster, the text of The Old Oaken Bucket recalls a past way of life: How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection...presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew! The wide-spreading pond and the... | |
 | Willa Cather - Fiction - 2003 - 588 pages
...Woodworth, with music by George Kiallmark. It is used here with nice irony, as the first stanza reads: How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,...When fond recollection presents them to view! The wide-spreading pond and the mill that stood by it, The bridge and the rock where the cataract fell;... | |
 | Susan J. Rosowski - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 316 pages
...Shimerda's painful homesickness and Jim's own nostalgia, which is the driving force of his narrative: "How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, / When fond recollection presents them to view!" (1.1-2.). By linking nostalgia with suicide, Gather implies that turning life into obsessive and falsified... | |
 | George Ade - Fiction - 2003 - 318 pages
...very pretty," said the book-agent, dodging the question addressed to him. "It's that " 'How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view.' ' "That is mighty purty," said the bicycle youth. "Let's sing it. I guess we all know it." "Nix! Nix!"... | |
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How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew! 
