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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Gardening: a poem

Gardening: a poem

Brown University

by Vern Rutsala. French fold. Cut of brown and yellow plant on cover.

Garden lark and friars' frolic: for visiting publishers and editors

Printed in colors on glossy white card stock. On page [1] colored illustration of naked woman with man-headed snake; on page [2] flowers with cartoon heads at centers; on page [3] man at table and garden with jars; on page [4] singing friar. For celebration at "Friars' Monastery" April 25, 1927. Includes menu, poem and text of song.

Gandhi

Gandhi

Brown University

Printed in black on beige paper. Signed at the bottom right: "Brown University from William Kimberley Palmer"

Gal from the South

Gal from the South

Brown University

Within border of type ornament sections (Andrews ivy border in Wolf) Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Ha, ha, ha, yah, yah, yah. At end of text below curvilinear line within lower border: Andrews, Printer, 38 Chatham St. Andrews used this address between 1853 and 1859.

Gagaku

Gagaku

Brown University

Printed on green paper. At end of text: From a book of poems titled "Wild seed"

Fusion Conference!: Dow, Peck and Carter

Satirical poem about electioneering in Portland, Maine. Printed area: 24.9 x 18.2 cm. Printed in two columns separated by a single line; double rule below title, triple rule below subtitle; all within uniform border of type ornaments. At end of text: Moral.--Keep peace at home, or the family jars will get round town. [In capitals:] The big boy that told how Dad struck Mother.

Funny babies

Funny babies

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Tune of Yankee doodle.

Funeral ode

Funeral ode

Brown University

By Rev. Br. J. G. Forman. To be sung to the tune: Pleyel's hymn. Within single line border crossed at corners. Masonic poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates between author's twentieth birthday and his death.

Funeral ode

Funeral ode

Brown University

By Rev. Br. J. G. Forman. To be sung to the tune: Pleyel's hymn. Within single line border crossed at corners. Masonic poem in four four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates between author's twentieth birthday and his death.

Funeral hymn

Funeral hymn

Brown University

At end of text: 57 W. Brookline Street, (Blackstone Sq.) Boston, Mass.

Funeral dirge

Funeral dirge

Brown University

Poetry. Within border of type ornaments. At head of text: Composed by Daniel Flagg, water cure physician. At the time when Church Members were contributing to purchase a sword for Gen.Pierce to carry to Mexico. Place suggested because Gen. Pierce was from New Hampshire and another Flagg item was published in Concord; date because of reference to the war with Mexico. First line: Hark from the tombs a doleful sound.