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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Only two of us left

Only two of us left

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At head of text: "[Reprinted from the Traveller]" [Thoughts suggested Sunday evening, June 20th.] At end of text: 17 Chester Park, Monday, June 21st, 1875.

Only to the girdered steel

Printed in brown on mustard-colored card stock. At head of title illustration signed: Louis Bromberg of crane and girders. Title from first line. Poem in four lines. At lower right: Greetings from Grace Goddard, Clement Wood. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence; place of publication because Wood lived in Delanson.

Only thy spark

Only thy spark

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Within ornamental border. At end of text: Reprinted from the October issue of Partners Magazine.

Only be kind

Only be kind

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Poetry. Rule below title. Words of song in four four-line stanzas, with five-line chorus.

Only a button

Only a button

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Printed in blue and red on heavy paper within ornamental border; vignette of Mercury in upper left corner and dove in lower right. At head of text: Presented to Grand Army of the Republic by Baxter & Reese, Furniture Makers, 20 Market Street, Camden, N.J. By kind permission of the author, Samuel Kenyon. Poem in nine four-line stanzas about Civil War veterans' button. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Only a beggar

Only a beggar

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By Mrs. J.E. McConaughy. At head of title cut of woman opening door to ragged little girl. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 3. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Only a beggar

Only a beggar

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By Mrs. J.E. McConaughy. At head of title cut of woman opening door to ragged little girl. Caption title. In upper right corner of page [1]: No. 3. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ones: A sample: The Red Hill Press

Sampler of seventeen English and non-English language poems beginning with: Notes for a 'Letter to the Balinese' (First line: Feelings are nothing) / Antonin Artaud; non-English language poetry translated by Paul Vangelisti, Jack Hirschman, and Alvaro Cardona-Hine. Sampler of seventeen English and non-English language poems beginning with: Notes for a 'Letter to the Balinese' (First line: Feelings are nothing) / Antonin Artaud; non-English language poetry translated by Paul Vangelisti, Jack Hirschman, and Alvaro Cardona-Hine. Poetry. Issued french folded; recto to be read over entire page; verso over half and quarter pages. Text printed in blue on tan paper. Illustration of arrows in red below title on cover page. Colophon on back page: The Red Hill Press / 6 San Gabriel Drive / Fairfax, CA 95930 ... ONES: A supplement to "Invisible City #16/17, designed by John McBride & produced at the West Coast Print Center / June, 1975..

One of the many

One of the many

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At end of text: Price: Anything you choose to give.

One mad queen

One mad queen

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Paul Mariah. White paper printed and illustrated in raw umber and deep blue; text in blue. Illustration at left of text. Poem.

One hundredth psalm

One hundredth psalm

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To be sung to the tune: Old hundred. Text of hymn in four numbered four-line stanzas. Originally published in John Day's Psalter, 1560-1561.