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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Ogden Nash, Bed riddance

Ogden Nash, Bed riddance

Brown University

Broadsheet printed in black, reddish-brown and tan on ivory paper folded to create [6] panels. Includes reproduction of photograph of Ogden Nash and drawings. Prospectus for poetry book. Includes four poems, beginning with: The pizza (First line: Look at itsy-bitsy Mitzi!) Date from publication date of book.

Often I think of the beautiful town

Often I think of the beautiful town

Brown University

Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of photograph of house captioned: Longfellow birth-place, Portland, Me. Title from first line of five-line stanza. Type-signed at end: Longfellow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Often I think of the beautiful town

Often I think of the beautiful town

Brown University

Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of photograph of house captioned: Longfellow birth-place, Portland, Me. Title from first line of five-line stanza. Type-signed at end: Longfellow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Offrande à Momus

Offrande à Momus

Brown University

Par J. Loup, membre de la Grivoisie. Possibly meant to be separated; pages [2] and [4] are numbered [2] and have "Fin" at end of each poem. At end on page [4] below double rule: Chez Thomas & William Bradford, Libraires.

Office poem

Office poem

Brown University

Issued in blue-green folder At end of text: Kirby Congdon Colophon at end: No. [blank] of 100 copies Consists of three sheets of paper 8 1/2 by 14 inches, pasted together to make one long sheet Reproduced from typescript Hay Broadsds Harris copy: No. 6, unsigned

Office

Office

Brown University

Mimeographed typescript on yellow paper; type-signed at end: David Sandberg, 909 Haight #1, San Francisco. At head of title in upper left: Free poems among friends. "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press (see "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p.[3]"). This issue probably published in San Francisco.

Of your countless Christmas greetings

Of your countless Christmas greetings

Brown University

Printed in gold and colors within decorative green and gold border on heavy paper in postcard format; illuminated initial. Illustrations of holly sprays in border and surrounding initial "O." Title from first line. Facsimile signature at end of poem: Mary C. Low. "No. 1132. Printed in Bavaria."--Verso. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Of winning words and tender looks

Of winning words and tender looks

Brown University

Printed in blue on glossy white card stock. At center illustration of spray of flowers and blank scroll. Two lines of poetry above and two below illustration. Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Of winning words and tender looks

Of winning words and tender looks

Brown University

Printed in blue on glossy white card stock. At center illustration of spray of flowers and blank scroll. Two lines of poetry above and two below illustration. Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Of winning words and tender looks

Of winning words and tender looks

Brown University

Printed in blue on glossy white card stock. At center illustration of spray of flowers and blank scroll. Two lines of poetry above and two below illustration. Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Of time

Of time

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Facsimile autograph.

Of the Father's love begotten

Of the Father's love begotten

Brown University

Page [2] blank. On page [1] music and text of six stanzas of Corde natus. Title from first line of hymn. "May your human being inner Feed on everything that nice is. With warmest greetings of the season from Fredric Woodbridge Wilson"--p. [3] "Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900). Harmonization of the Christmas hymn Corde natus, '"Of the Father's love begotten,' by John M. Neale. No. 84 in Church hymns with tunes, edited by Arthur Sullivan, published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 1874."--Colophon. Name of author of Latin hymn not on item. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Of the fabric of poetry

Of the fabric of poetry

Brown University

Photograph of author. At end of text: From "All in a Garden Fair and Other Verse." Publication date from publication date of All in a garden fair.

Of many things

Of many things

Brown University

Title from first line. Pages [1,4] blank. Within single line border.

Of course

Of course

Brown University

Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on a restaurant table. At end of text: D.D. Poem adapts nursery rhyme to urge food conservation.

Of course

Of course

Brown University

Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on a restaurant table. At end of text: D.D. Poem adapts nursery rhyme to urge food conservation.

Of course

Of course

Brown University

Duplicate printing on each side of folded broadside probably intended to be placed on a restaurant table. At end of text: D.D. Poem adapts nursery rhyme to urge food conservation.

Of all the biographical instances in my life

Of all the biographical instances in my life

Brown University

Bookmark printed in black and blue on yellow paper. At head of text reproduction of photograph of author; at end of text illustration of flower inscribed: One eye love. Title from first lines. Author's name not on item. Author's name and date from press.