Harris Broadsides

Broadsides are single-sheet publications, often issued as ephemera or announcements. The Harris Broadsides Collection is a comprehensive collection of American poetry published in broadside format from colonial times to the present. The collection offers materials covering a broad spectrum of American life, and includes poetry of every description: 18th and 19th century ballads, verse describing newsworthy events, poetic effusions of sentimentality and patriotism, comic verse, and much more. When completed, this digital project will include over 20,000 titles.
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Servant boy

Servant boy

Brown University

by Seamus Heaney. Poem. Printed in dark blue on white card stock; includes printer's device (The fool) At foot of sheet: Free; printed in Detroit, June 20, 1971, The Red Hanrahan Press. First line: He is wintering out.

Sergeant Ezra Lee and his American Turtle

Sergeant Ezra Lee and his American Turtle

Brown University

by Louis I. Newman. Mailer with, in lower half of page [4], printed return address: Louis I. Newman, 271 Central Park West, New York 24, N.Y. Line of type ornaments at top and bottom of each page. Below line of type ornaments on page [1], preceding title, vignette of the American flag. At head of text: These stanzas, based upon an article by Stewart H. Holbrook, to whom appreciative acknowledgment is made, were written in 1950, but are published now for the first time in honor of the launching on January 12th, 1963 of the two submarines, the "John Adams" and the "Nathan Hale." Poem in twenty-two four-line stanzas.

Senescentia

Senescentia

Brown University

Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Samuel Ward. Suggested publication date because author's Lyrical recreations was published in 1883.

Semi-centennial celebration of the inauguration of Washington

Semi-centennial celebration of the inauguration of Washington

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At end of text: April 30, 1839. This is probably the first edition of the poem. According to Blanck it also appears in "The Jubilee of the Constitution" ... A Discourse ... 30th of April 1839 ... by John Quincy Adams.