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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Ode to Sans Souci

Ode to Sans Souci

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of text: Read at Union Thanksgiving Dinner in the Pratt Cottage Friday, October 16, 1896.

Ode to negativity

Ode to negativity

Brown University

Issued in postcard format as "Alternative Press Postcard." Nine-line poem printed in black on olive card stock. Type-signed at end: Lewis Warsh & Tom Clark 4/20/70.

Ode to Mason and Slidell

Ode to Mason and Slidell

Brown University

Poem relating the removal of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell from the British mail steamer Trent, their intended incarceration in Boston and referral to British protest resulting in their release. Poem relating the removal of the Confederate commissioners Mason and Slidell from the British mail steamer Trent, their intended incarceration in Boston and referral to British protest resulting in their release. by H. Webster Canterbury. Broadsheet. Poetry in ten four-line stanzas. To be sung to the tune: Twenty years ago. Above title cut of ship under sail.

Ode to cold

Ode to cold

Brown University

Poem. Caption title. At end of text: May 26, 1907. Isaac P. Noyes. Prelude--Cheerfulness / Bard of Avon (first line: Now, my cometes, and brothers in exile) -- Cold (first line: Cold as well as heat in the world is important) The prelude is taken from Shakespeare's As you like it, act II, scene I.

Ode to cold

Ode to cold

Brown University

Poem. Caption title. At end of text: May 26, 1907. Isaac P. Noyes. Prelude--Cheerfulness / Bard of Avon (first line: Now, my cometes, and brothers in exile) -- Cold (first line: Cold as well as heat in the world is important) The prelude is taken from Shakespeare's As you like it, act II, scene I.

Ode to California

Ode to California

Brown University

Printed on tan paper. At end of poem vignette of fish. "47 copies of this broadside set & printed by the author in Palatino on handmade Japanese papers .... L.E. Hamady." Publication date from dealer.

Ode to a mean man

Ode to a mean man

Brown University

Poem attacks Frank Gavan, a La Fayette tailor, as a flatterer, cheat and defrauder of his workmen. Poem attacks Frank Gavan, a La Fayette tailor, as a flatterer, cheat and defrauder of his workmen. Poetry. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because the subject of the poem is ridiculed for calling Grant "Elias," probably referring to Ulysses S. Grant.

Ode sur les évenemens du Nouveau Siécle

Ode sur les évenemens du Nouveau Siécle

Brown University

Pages [3,4] blank. Printed on laid paper. At end of text: Philadelphia 4-mars 1801. Chez Thomas & William Bradford, Libraires. Poem in six ten-line stanzas.

Ode on Washington: and, Days of absence

Ode on Washington: and, Days of absence

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of advertising: Sold wholesale and retail, corner of Cross and Mercantile Streets, Boston; type ornaments (cf. Riley 7507) at each end. W. Rutter was at above address from 1820 to 1834. At head of text: Sung on the arrival of President Washington, at the State House in Boston, October 24, 1789.

Ode on the flag of the U. States

Ode on the flag of the U. States

Brown University

by John H. Wilson. Poem. Printed in two columns with short ornamental type design between title and text. Printed area: 24.2 x 16.4 cm. At the end of first column: September 11, 1861. First line: We love the flag, the flag of old.

Ode on the flag of the U. States

Ode on the flag of the U. States

Brown University

by John H. Wilson. Poem. Printed in two columns with short ornamental type design between title and text. Printed area: 24.2 x 16.4 cm. At the end of first column: September 11, 1861. First line: We love the flag, the flag of old.

Ode on the flag of the U. States

Ode on the flag of the U. States

Brown University

by John H. Wilson. Poem. Printed in two columns with short ornamental type design between title and text. Printed area: 24.2 x 16.4 cm. At the end of first column: September 11, 1861. First line: We love the flag, the flag of old.