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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Judgment to come

Judgment to come

Brown University

At head of text: [From The Weekly Springfield Republican, November 17, 1899]

Jubilee increase campaign hymn

To be sung to the tune: Cyprus. Text of hymn in four four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Amelia DeF. Lockwood. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Joy is the mother of all virtue

Poetry. Printed on cream paper. At head of text: Goethe. At end of poem: George Stanley. Place of publication and date suggested because piece was offered in 1985 dealer's list of Canadian broadsides, mostly published in 1970's and 1980's. First line: Woke up this morn, felt like a horse.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

James Russell Lowell. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Full-color head-and-shoulder portrait of Longfellow at right of text and vase containing violets at left with spray of violets below signed: Cobb Shinn. Title from first line of poem. Untitled four-line poem.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

James Russell Lowell. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Full-color head-and-shoulder portrait of Longfellow at right of text and vase containing violets at left with spray of violets below signed: Cobb Shinn. Title from first line of poem. Untitled four-line poem.

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how

James Russell Lowell. Text printed in blue on recto, black on verso on glossy card stock in postcard format. Full-color head-and-shoulder portrait of Longfellow at right of text and vase containing violets at left with spray of violets below signed: Cobb Shinn. Title from first line of poem. Untitled four-line poem.

Joy be thine on Christmas day

Poetry printed in black on french folded buff laid paper with deckled edges. Page [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. Colored illustraton of landscape with holiday caller at head of title on page [1] At end of poem on page [3]: From the writings of Edgar A. Guest. "The Buzza Co. MPLS. USA." Publication date supplied by former owner.

Joy be thine on Christmas day

Poetry printed in black on french folded buff laid paper with deckled edges. Page [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. Colored illustraton of landscape with holiday caller at head of title on page [1] At end of poem on page [3]: From the writings of Edgar A. Guest. "The Buzza Co. MPLS. USA." Publication date supplied by former owner.

Joy be thine on Christmas day

Poetry printed in black on french folded buff laid paper with deckled edges. Page [2] and [4] blank. Cover title. Colored illustraton of landscape with holiday caller at head of title on page [1] At end of poem on page [3]: From the writings of Edgar A. Guest. "The Buzza Co. MPLS. USA." Publication date supplied by former owner.

Journeying onward

Journeying onward

Brown University

Printed on heavy cream paper. Poem in three stanzas of varying length. At end of text: Nellie B. Mace. Courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor. Publication date suggested because Brown University copy found in Nellie B. Mace's Bringer of peace and other poems published in 1940.

Journeyed, once, we did to Saveh

Printed in red on heavy white paper in two columns. Title from first line. Poem in six four-line stanzas. At end of text: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Diana and Chesley Worthington. Suggested place and date of publication because Brown University copy was donated by author, a Providence resident, in Dec. 1977.

Joseph und seine Brüder

Printed in two columns divided by double line. Poem in eight numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.