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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It was her love

It was her love

Brown University

Printed in red and black on heavy paper. Text in red superimposed on reproduction of photograph of woman wearing onle shoes and stockings. Title from first line. Poem in four lines. Type-signed at end: John Reed. Photo: Chas. Stark. Removed from portfolio Semina, no. 4.

It takes so little

It takes so little

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper; text in blue. On page [1] colored illustration of sailboat and spray of roses; text on pages [2]-[3] wreathed with roses. At end of poem: Selected. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

It takes so little

It takes so little

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper; text in blue. On page [1] colored illustration of sailboat and spray of roses; text on pages [2]-[3] wreathed with roses. At end of poem: Selected. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

It makes the lightest pies and bread

Broadsheet. Printed on tan card stock. On verso advertisement for Sea Foam, apparently a kind of baking-powder. On recto below poem illustration of running man holding large can of Sea Foam. Title from first line. Date from internal evidence.

It is very hard to tell my philosophy of poetry

Statement about poetry Reproduced typescript. Title from first line of statament Headed in upper right corner: Paterson Society, 16 Parker Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. Type-signed at end: Edward Field. December 1960

It is the Lord! Behold his hand

Hymn, containing five verses of the original six; without music. Title from first line. Printed on grayish-blue paper; in lower left-hand corner, blind-stamped: 0 & H. Ascribed to James Montgomery.

It is the Lord! Behold his hand

Hymn, containing five verses of the original six; without music. Title from first line. Printed on grayish-blue paper; in lower left-hand corner, blind-stamped: 0 & H. Ascribed to James Montgomery.

It is somehow reassuring to contemplate

Printed in colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. Text in calligraphy superimposed on illustration of grotesque figures. Title from first lines. On verso: Kenneth Patchen. Painting-Poem. Mixed medium, 9 1/2" x 17 1/2" Possession of the poet. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

It is somehow reassuring to contemplate

Printed in colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. Text in calligraphy superimposed on illustration of grotesque figures. Title from first lines. On verso: Kenneth Patchen. Painting-Poem. Mixed medium, 9 1/2" x 17 1/2" Possession of the poet. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

It is somehow reassuring to contemplate

Printed in colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. Text in calligraphy superimposed on illustration of grotesque figures. Title from first lines. On verso: Kenneth Patchen. Painting-Poem. Mixed medium, 9 1/2" x 17 1/2" Possession of the poet. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

It is I!

It is I!

Brown University

Within double line border.

It is I!

It is I!

Brown University

Within double line border.

It is I!

It is I!

Brown University

Within double line border.

It does move, though

It does move, though

Brown University

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Within ornamental border with crossed corners on pages [2]-[3] Type-signed at end of poem: A Brother. In lower margin on page [3]: To be read by the author (L.A.M.) before the Ottaugechee Division of the Sons of Temperance at Woodstock, Vt., Dec. 13, 1873.

It ain't no use to grumble and complain

Poetry. Printed in brown on tan paper in postcard format within double-line border on recto. At head of title and at right and below drawing signed K.P.B. of hollyhocks and vines. Title from first line of untitled four-line poem. At end of text facsimile signature: James Whitcomb Riley. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because another similar Riley post card (The prayer perfect, HB39072) acquired with Brown University copy was mailed in 1913.

Isthmus Press

Isthmus Press

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Advertising brochure. Printed in blue on buff paper. Cover illustration by Lucy Chiotti. First title: Pearl Harbor/ Paul Vangelisti.