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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Freshets of Spring

Freshets of Spring

Brown University

F. Tiutcheff ; translated from the Russian by Isabel Florence Hapgood. Poem in twelve lines.

Fresh hip poetry

Fresh hip poetry

Brown University

Contains a review of Michael Joseph Phillip written by Richard Pflum Item is an advertisement to purchase Libretto For 23 Poems by Michael Joseph Phillips. Printed in black on cream paper.

Fremont songs: Campaign of Fifty-Six

Printed in two columns divided by single line. Includes text of 13 campaign songs, with names of some tunes, beginning with Opening (First line: Hark! to the cry, which loud and high)

Fremont and victory

Fremont and victory

Brown University

By Charles S. Weyman. To be sung to the tune: Suoni la tromba, from I Puritani. Text of song in five numbered eleven-line stanzas.

Fremont

Fremont

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Written by W.S. Morton, Esq. for the Qunicy Fremont Club.

Fremont

Fremont

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Written by W.S. Morton, Esq. for the Qunicy Fremont Club.

Fremont

Fremont

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Written by W.S. Morton, Esq. for the Qunicy Fremont Club.

Freedom's triumph

Freedom's triumph

Brown University

At head of text: Dedicated to Woodrow Wilson, ... and The Allied Nations ..

Freedom's holy light

Freedom's holy light

Brown University

Pages [3] and [4] blank. Tune: America or God Save the King. Within decorative border.

Freedom's footprints

Freedom's footprints

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Cover title. At head of text: (From the Springfield, Mass., Republican, Nov. 19, 1899) Poem in twelve four-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: Henry A. Harman.

Free-roaming dogs

Free-roaming dogs

Brown University

Printed on green paper in reproduced typescript. In lower left corner group of signs resembling Mayan glyphs. Type-signed at end: Howard McCord.

Free mason's songs

Free mason's songs

Brown University

Printed in two columns; with initials. At head of first column small cut of columned structure. At end of text: N. Coverly, Jr. Printer, Milk-St. Boston. The Boston directory lists N. Coverly, Jr. at above address for the first time in 1810. The second song, "Adieu, a heart fond, warm, adieu" (first line) has been attributed to Robert Burns by Thomas L. Philbrick in "Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, vol. 9 (1957), p. 255-258.