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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Ningwano!

Ningwano!

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page in black and red. At head of title drawing signed "Dingle" of Indian and tree trunk. Poem in four lines. "Ye Yule Tyde greetings from ye quaint and mystical 'Cathedral of the Forest,' Abbey Dawn. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Havelock Robb Christmasse 1958." "The drawing is by Adrian Dingle, A.R.C.A., and is from Tecumtha ...."

Ningwano!

Ningwano!

Brown University

French fold; printed on double page in black and red. At head of title drawing signed "Dingle" of Indian and tree trunk. Poem in four lines. "Ye Yule Tyde greetings from ye quaint and mystical 'Cathedral of the Forest,' Abbey Dawn. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Havelock Robb Christmasse 1958." "The drawing is by Adrian Dingle, A.R.C.A., and is from Tecumtha ...."

Nine years-long years have rolled away

Title from first line. Within ornamental border. At head of text: To the public. The bearer, having lost his eyesight in the pursuit of his business, and having a family depending on him for support, and not wishing to become a burden to the public, takes this means of gaining a livelihood for himself and family, and most respectfully craves your patronage. He is selling this at any price.

Nightmare for future reference

Broadsheet torn from New Yorker magazine, pages 19-20. Poem printed in two columns. At left and right of title drawings of cannons and barbed wire; below poem on page 20 Helen Hokinson cartoon of man and woman captioned: George, guess what! I've just hired a Swedish nobleman!" Type-signed at end of poem: Stephen Vincent Benét. Possible range of dates from internal evidence.

Night: The house of dreams: two poems

by W. Wilfred Campbell ; issued privately to his friends for the New Year, 1903. Page [4] blank. Printed on gray handmade paper. Cover title.

Night at Easter time

Night at Easter time

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Mimeograph. First line: The night is cool, the night is silent.

Night at Easter time

Night at Easter time

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Mimeograph. First line: The night is cool, the night is silent.

Night at Easter time

Night at Easter time

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Mimeograph. First line: The night is cool, the night is silent.

Niagara Falls, U.C

Niagara Falls, U.C

Brown University

On recto, within border of type ornaments, certificate that [blank] has passed behind the great falling sheet of water to Termination Rock. On recto eight-line poem by Willis Gaylord Clark; prose introduction begins: The following lines were written. Publication date because last digit of date printed as 183[blank] is filled in in ms. as "9" on Brown University copy.

Niagara

Niagara

Brown University

At head of text: From Goat Island Tower, July, 1867. Within double line border.

Niagara

Niagara

Brown University

At head of text: From Goat Island Tower, July, 1867. Within double line border.