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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Ein schones Lied

Ein schones Lied

Brown University

Poem in one stanza of five lines and five of six lines, including a two-line refrain beginning: Vergess nicht mein, vergess ja meiner nicht.. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Irregularly trimmed; shelved with dealer's summary of contents of song

Ein Schön Jesus-Lied

Ein Schön Jesus-Lied

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Caption title. Without music. Text of hymn in nine numbered eight-line stanzas.

Ein schon geistliches Abend Gebet

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of varied type ornaments. Poem in ten six-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ein schön geistlich Lied

Printed in two columns within border of type ornament sections. To be sung to the tune: Wann mein Stündlein vorhanden ist. Text of hymn in 14 numbered seven-line stanzas to be sung by a father, mother, or child. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ein schön geistlich Lied

Printed in two columns within mourning border. To be sung to the tune: Wann mein Stündlein vorhanden ist. Printed area measures 22.7 x 15.6 cm. Text of hymn in eleven numbered seven-line stanzas divided among a father, mother and dead child. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ein schoen Himmels=Lied

Ein schoen Himmels=Lied

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of various type ornaments. text of hymn in seven numbered 13-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ein Sabbath-Morgen Lied

Ein Sabbath-Morgen Lied

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornaments. To be sung to the tune: Befiel du deine Wege. Text of song in twelve eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of text: Wm. Gross. Fountainville, Pa. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence and because another poem by Gross is dated in title 1897.

Ein neues Lied zur Warnung aller Leute

Tune: Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit. Within border of type ornaments printed in three columns divided by single lines. Publication information from dealer.

Ein Neu-Jahrs Lied

Ein Neu-Jahrs Lied

Brown University

Tune: Ach bleib bei uns Herr Jesu Christ. Within double line border printed in two columns.

Ein Lied auf alle Handwerker

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line with border of type ornaments; top border different from other three. At head of title vignette of head surrounded by floral ornament. Printed area measures: 23.4 x 16.1 cm. Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.

Ein Lied

Ein Lied

Brown University

von Pfarrer Helmuth verfasset, während dem schreckvollen Sterben in Philadelphia. Garland headpiece. Caption title. Poem in 27 four-line stanzas preceded by prose introduction beginning: Weil die Zeiten ausserordentlich sind. Suggested publication date because Philadelphia suffered an epidemic of yellow fever in 1793.

Ein Gesang frommer Kinder

Within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 13.9 x 9.9 cm. Text of hymn in four four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Gedruckt von J.S. Steck, Grünsburg, Pa. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Ein Gesang frommer Kinder

Within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 13.9 x 9.9 cm. Text of hymn in four four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Gedruckt von J.S. Steck, Grünsburg, Pa. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Ein Gesang frommer Kinder

Within border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 13.9 x 9.9 cm. Text of hymn in four four-line stanzas. At end of text within border: Gedruckt von J.S. Steck, Grünsburg, Pa. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

Ein Ermahnungs: Lied an James Quin

Tune: Gott! Du frommer Gott. Printed in two columns divided by double line. At head of text: Welcher sein Eheweib todt geschlagen hat, und nunjetzt zum Tod verurtheilt ist, .. At end of text: Durch die Gnade Gottes herausgegeben von Christian Bruestle, von Deutschland, den 4ten Februar, 1827.

Ein bittend Lied, an der Schöpfer: In eigener Melodi

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within border of type ornaments; side borders alike, top and bottom borders different. Printed area measures: 13.7 x 15.1 cm. Text of hymn printed as prose in 12 numbered stanzas. Suggested place and date of publication from dealer.

Eighty-two years gone by

At head of text between rules: Lines by Mrs. E.P. Offutt for her eighty-second birthday, February 18th, 1895. Poem in seven four-line stanzas.