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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Now!: The past if we would we cannot recall

1 broadsheet. Broadsheet; blue card stock. Sub-title and first line the same. At end of text: Who was in bondage to the senses and was given freedom through Christian Science Treatment. Poetry in 4 six-line stanzas on recto and explanation of distribution of profits on verso, beginning: This poem to be sold for not less than 5 cts. each ..

Now, Marcy, said farmer Burlingame

Title from first line. Contains advertising. At head of title: Jerome Kennedy & Co., 120 Westminster St., 41 and 43 Dorrance Street.

Now in thy youth beseech of Him

Poetry. Printed on card stock. At head of title sepia illustration of two kneeling children pasted on. Title from first line. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Now and then in other ages

Page [2] blank. Printed in gray and black on heavy white paper; fold at top. On page [1] uncaptioned drawing of two skaters. Title from first line. Poem in two four-line stanzas. At end of poem: Marian and Richard Gutwillig. On page [4]: Two skaters. Pencil drawing by an anonymous artist. Netherlandish, XVIII century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whittelsey Fund, 1960."

Now

Now

Brown University

Tune: Martyn. Within double line border.

November

November

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Francis. Illustration by Barry Moser. On verso: Poem ... [copyrighted] University of Massachusetts Press. Printed at Pennyroyal, April, 1976. Printed in brown; ill. in black. First line: Ruin of summer, wrecker of gardens.

November

November

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Francis. Illustration by Barry Moser. On verso: Poem ... [copyrighted] University of Massachusetts Press. Printed at Pennyroyal, April, 1976. Printed in brown; ill. in black. First line: Ruin of summer, wrecker of gardens.

November

November

Brown University

Poem. At end of text: Robert Francis. Illustration by Barry Moser. On verso: Poem ... [copyrighted] University of Massachusetts Press. Printed at Pennyroyal, April, 1976. Printed in brown; ill. in black. First line: Ruin of summer, wrecker of gardens.

Novel 7

Novel 7

Brown University

Steve McCaffery. Printed in blue, yellow and brown on cream-colored paper. At head of text: Dreadnaught 52 pickup 52. Poem in three numbered stanzas, two of three lines each and one of two lines.

Nothing like Montana

Nothing like Montana

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on verso in blue. At head of title reproduction of color photograph of cattle crossing river. Poem in two four-line stanzas.

Notes for a lazy poem

Notes for a lazy poem

Brown University

At end of text: Steven Osterlund. Edition limited to 500 copies. Printed on buff paper, to the right of vertical rule. First line: Two volumes are open.

Notabilia

Notabilia

Brown University

Pages [1,4] blank. Proof. At head of text: ... we are enabled to print the following letter, written to Nathan Hale by his classmate, E. Marvin .. At end of text: In memoriam ..

Not up to his work

Not up to his work

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within ornamental border. Poem in 16 six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Not one, but two

Not one, but two

Brown University

At head of text: To a friend on the loss of two children. At end of text: Died in Boston, March 19, Caroline Eustis, daughter of William Henry and Philena M. Kennard, aged 8 yrs. Publication date noted on verso.

Not of the past is he who bore

Pages [2] and [4] blank. Printed in gold, red, purple and black on glossy white card stock. Title from first line of eight-line poem on page [1] On page [1] in upper right and lower left: 1732. 1898; sepia portrait of George Washington at upper left; sepia illustration of Mount Vernon at lower right. On page [3] menu for elaborate dinner Feb. 22, 1898. Embossed in lower left margin on page [1]: C.E. Morrell Co. Elmira, N.Y. Publisher from envelope acquired with Brown Univ. copy.

Not knowing

Not knowing

Brown University

Broadsheet. Religious poem, in 7 verses. At end of text, on verso: M.E. Brainard. This may be Mary G. Brainard, to whom this poem has been attributed by an earlier cataloger. Printed in dark green on off-white paper. First line: I know not what will befall me!

Not knowing

Not knowing

Brown University

Broadsheet. Religious poem, in 7 verses. At end of text, on verso: M.E. Brainard. This may be Mary G. Brainard, to whom this poem has been attributed by an earlier cataloger. Printed in dark green on off-white paper. First line: I know not what will befall me!