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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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.

Rivals for attention

Rivals for attention

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Printed in green. On page [1]: Christmas greetings. 1970.

Rivals for attention

Rivals for attention

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Printed in green. On page [1]: Christmas greetings. 1970.

Rimfire distribution

Rimfire distribution

Brown University

Broadsheet. On verso, headed: 1. Firm continents drift oceanfloors apart, eleven numbered statements. Imprint information from dealer; suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Rimes of a good-natured apprentice

by Robert Robot. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in colors on ivory paper. Title superimposed on colored drawing of robot within orange single-line border. Cover title. Poem in two three-line stanzas on page [3] Author's name from ms. signature on Brown University copy.

Rimes of a good-natured apprentice

by Robert Robot. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in colors on ivory paper. Title superimposed on colored drawing of robot within orange single-line border. Cover title. Poem in two three-line stanzas on page [3] Author's name from ms. signature on Brown University copy.

Right must prevail

Right must prevail

Brown University

Within double line border. At head of text: (Privately printed) Cut of scale of justice at head of text. At end of text: Baltimore, 1862. H. Rebel. Other titles for this poem: Fiat justicia and God will repay.

Riding on a rail, or, The doom of the cattle-starver

Harris is ridden on a rail by his neighbors for letting his cattle and horses starve to death. Harris is ridden on a rail by his neighbors for letting his cattle and horses starve to death. Within border of type ornament sections. Poem in 14 four-line stanzas. Place of publication suggested because Harris, from "Newtonville," is tried in Concord, N.H. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Richmond's European vision

Poem in seven six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; poem attacks slavery but does not mention the Civil War.

Richmond prisons 1861-1862

compiled from the original records kept by the Confederate government. Publisher's flier for book by William H. Jeffrey. On page [3] portraits captioned: The author, and Miss Van Lew; on page [4], cut of Libby Prison.

Richmond prisons 1861-1862

compiled from the original records kept by the Confederate government. Publisher's flier for book by William H. Jeffrey. On page [3] portraits captioned: The author, and Miss Van Lew; on page [4], cut of Libby Prison.

Richmond on the James

Richmond on the James

Brown University

Medallion of George Washington centered in first word of title. To be sung to the tune: Bingen on the Rhine. Text of song in six eight-line stanzas. At end of text within dotted rules: Wandering Poet; beneath: Lincoln, McLellan, Fremont, Grant. The Wandering Poet was a pseudonym of Byron DeWolfe, of Nashua, N.H.

Rice's obituaries

Rice's obituaries

Brown University

Advertising brochure. Contains reproduction of engraved portrait of Rice with facsimile autograph.

Rice's elegy. To the Cambridge Woodlands Cemetery, Cambridge, N.Y

Printed in three columns divided by single lines. At center: half-length cut of R. Rice with facsimile signature, captioned: The American poet, Cambridge, N.Y. At head of text: The following dirge, written in 1859 ... will ... be of more value to the world than the cemetery of its dedication. Since its first production the author has been solicited ... to publish it in circular form ..