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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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Rondeau: a windy day

Rondeau: a windy day

Brown University

French fold; printed on double leaves. At end of text: Earliest known poem by Elinor Wylie. One hundred copies issued for Harvey Taylor. Note: ..

Rondeau de La Grivoisie

Rondeau de La Grivoisie

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Tune: Du rondeau du camp de Grand-Pré. At head of text: Par J. Loup, membre de la dite Societé. At end of text: Chez Thomas & William Bradford, Libraires.

Rollin' into Kingfield

Rollin' into Kingfield

Brown University

Printed on heavy glossy pale pink card stock. To be sung to the tune: Jingle bells. Text of song in five four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: C.G. Wilson, 1926.

Rollin' into Kingfield

Rollin' into Kingfield

Brown University

Printed on heavy glossy pale pink card stock. To be sung to the tune: Jingle bells. Text of song in five four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: C.G. Wilson, 1926.

Rollin' into Kingfield

Rollin' into Kingfield

Brown University

Printed on heavy glossy pale pink card stock. To be sung to the tune: Jingle bells. Text of song in five four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: C.G. Wilson, 1926.

Roland Hayes: words of songs

Printed in two columns. Text of 46 songs, including Negro spirituals. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and the inscribed date on Brown University copy.

Roger Williams

Roger Williams

Brown University

Caption title. Poetry in six four-line stanzas printed on white paper. Printed initials at end of text: S.H.W. Original hymn composed by S.H. Whitman for the dedication of the Roger Williams Monument at Roger Williams Park in Providence, R.I., in 1877.

Roger Williams

Roger Williams

Brown University

Caption title. Poetry in six four-line stanzas printed on white paper. Printed initials at end of text: S.H.W. Original hymn composed by S.H. Whitman for the dedication of the Roger Williams Monument at Roger Williams Park in Providence, R.I., in 1877.

Roger Williams

Roger Williams

Brown University

Caption title. Poetry in six four-line stanzas printed on white paper. Printed initials at end of text: S.H.W. Original hymn composed by S.H. Whitman for the dedication of the Roger Williams Monument at Roger Williams Park in Providence, R.I., in 1877.

Rock me to sleep

Rock me to sleep

Brown University

French fold; printed on double pages. Within border of type ornaments.

Rocamadour: Black Virgin

Printed on heavy red paper in three columns. At head of text: For Motra. Poem in seven stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end: Jerome Rothenberg. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Robinson Crusoe: and, Old Daddy Lapstone

Poetry within border of vine type ornaments, printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Cut of hunting scene captioned "That but for his gun, he'd surely been undone ... " at head of text in first column. In lower margin below border: Sold wholesale and retail by Hunts & Shaw, No. 2 Mercantile Wharf, and head of city wharf, North Side, the firm's location from 1837 to 1841. "Robinson Crusoe" is attributed to Jack Cussans according to Thomas L. Philbrick's article in vol. 9 of the "Studies in bibliography" This edition not in Ford or Checklist of Amer. Imprints.

Robin redbreast

Robin redbreast

Brown University

Stanley Kunitz. Broadsheet. Poetry. Drawing of head and hand of Kunitz at left of poem. At lower left: Poetry Festival Tuesday, 6 April 1971 ... Worcester Public Library. On verso information about poet and festival, and short essay by Kunitz entitled Poetry at the root.

Robert LaVigne: an exhibition of selected works, July 11 to August 15, The Lion

Previously folded in four panels for mailing (9 x 22 cm.) Caption title. At head of text in top panel reproduction of artwork by LaVigne. Title from first lines of bottom panel announcing exhibit. Two middle panels comprise four paragraphs about LaVigne and his art, beginning: I was wandering around in Fosters Polk and Sutter, and type-signed at end: Paris, May 25, 1958, Allen Ginsberg. Printed in an edition of 250-300 copies.

Robert Frost

Robert Frost

Brown University

300 copies distributed by The State University of Iowa Library, April 13, 1959. Poem.

Robert Emmet of the Emerald Isle

Fourteen-line poem. At end of text: Dedicated to Maureen Shea of America by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1928 A.D.

Roam with me

Roam with me

Brown University

Cut-out folder of house. Pages [2]-[4] blank. Poem printed on silk inserted on page 1.