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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Epitaph: For a monument in Lancaster, Mass

Poetry. Type-signed at end: T.W. Parsons. "Written in memory of George A. Parker, died April 20, 1887"--BAL, v. 6, p. 571. Suggested publication date from date of death of subject of poem.

Epilogue

Epilogue

Brown University

Written by Mr. Agg. Spoken by Mr. Dinneford, at the representation of the Drama, in Washington, December, 1824.

Epilogue

Epilogue

Brown University

Poem in five four-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from date-stamp on Brown University copy.

Epigrams in a cellar

Epigrams in a cellar

Brown University

French folded Poems Contains 9 epigrams beginning with Clos Vougeot 1911 by C.D. Morley. (First line: Clad in full velvet, enters Clos Vougeot) Printed on outside of double leaf, unopened at top Published in an edition of 500 copies. One of a few copies to contain slip, printed in red: (Drinking cup)/Good/Cheer. cf. Lee, Alfred P. A bibliography of Christopher Morley

Envoy

Envoy

Brown University

Printed on double leaves. Printed in blue and gold; laid in envelope with advertising flyer. Designed by George F. Trenholm.

Envoi

Envoi

Brown University

Walter de la Mare. French fold; printed on double pages. Line of type ornaments at head of title and cut of birds and plant below title. Colophon on page [4]: Selected by Lawrence Clark Powell. Printed by Andrew Horn & Saul Marks for friends and admirers of Frances Clarke Sayers, Rieber Hall UCLA 12 June 1965. First line: Child do you love the flower.

Envoi

Envoi

Brown University

Royal Murdoch. Caption title. Poem in 12 four-line stanzas. Reprinted from The University Review, Autumn 1967.

Enlistment

Enlistment

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Tipped in illustrated cover. Edition of 200 copies printed for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.

England's oldest colony

England's oldest colony

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Poetry and prose. Suggested range of publication dates because author's notation on Brown University copy refers to her husband as dead (he died in 1923) and the item was acquired by Brown in 1941.

End o' the shed antiques

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Sketch of the shop at head of text, captioned end of shed antiques. At end of text: Hayes J. Brackett, Charlton Depot, Mass.

End o' the shed antiques

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Sketch of the shop at head of text, captioned end of shed antiques. At end of text: Hayes J. Brackett, Charlton Depot, Mass.

End o' the shed antiques

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Sketch of the shop at head of text, captioned end of shed antiques. At end of text: Hayes J. Brackett, Charlton Depot, Mass.

Emmanuel

Emmanuel

Brown University

Tune: All Saints. At end of text: Words Miss Dixon.

Eminent poets and authors

Biographical sketches, portraits and quotations from: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, Edgar A. Poe, John G. Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Walo Emerson, John Boyle O'Reilly, James Russell Lowell, Fitz Greene Halleck, and James Fenimore Cooper, and European authors.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

Brown University

Printed on tan paper. Poem in ten lines. Type-signed at end: Mary Baron. In lower left corner: JM. ER. Tightrope VI. Issued as part of Set no. 162 with other poetry broadsides handset and printed by Jo Mish and Ed Rayher in periodical Tightrope, vol. 6.