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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Dream sheet

Dream sheet

Brown University

edited by Diane Wakoski. Broadsheet. Contains poetry, beginning with My dream with its solar-pulse gallop, by Ruth Krauss.

Dream sheet

Dream sheet

Brown University

edited by Diane Wakoski. Broadsheet. Contains poetry, beginning with My dream with its solar-pulse gallop, by Ruth Krauss.

Dream of a prose poem

Dream of a prose poem

Brown University

James Tate. Printed on heavy yellow paper in postcard format. Prose poetry.

Dream of a ball

Dream of a ball

Brown University

words and music by Constantin Sternberg ; English version by Helen D. Tretbar. Broadsheet. Poetry; without the music. At head of text: Dedicated to Mad. Pauline L'Allemaud. At end of text: Copyright I.O. v. Prochazka, 1886. American Elite Edition.

Dream castles

Dream castles

Brown University

Walter J. Coates. Printed on birch bark pasted on cardboard; two perforations in left margin; initial block. At head of text: Suggested by Gustave Nadaud's song, "Carcassonne," as translated by Daniel L. Cady. Poem in four eight-line stanzas with final four-line stanza entitled: L'Envoi. At end of text: Dec. 30, 1926. Place of publication and publisher from dealer when Brown University copy was acquired with other birch bark broadsides; Coates was editor and printer at Driftwind Press.

Dream away

Dream away

Brown University

by Bob Parker. Printed in blue on glossy white paper. At head of title cut of two child angels. Poem in four four-line stanzas. At end of text: By Bob Parker, the Sandman. Observed by Stanley Carter, P. O. Box 203, Lafayette, Indiana. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

Down with tyranny! Let liberty survive!

Poetry and prose. At head of title quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar beginning: As Caesar loved me I weep for him. Includes quotation from speech of T. Burges "previous to the last congressional election," praising Nathan F. Dixon and disparaging "Mr. Pierce." Date suggested because Burges, Dixon and D. J. Pearce ran for Congress from Rhode Island in 1833; Burges and Pearce were elected.

Down in yon forest

Down in yon forest

Brown University

Poetry. Page [2] blank. Printed in black and gray-blue on cream paper. On page [1] cut in red and gray-blue of landscape and bed under arch signed: Zola. Title from beginning of first line. Colophon on page [4] with vignette of hand press: The Cummington Press. Cummington, Massachusetts. At end of poem: Traditional. First line: Down in yon forest there stands a hall.

Down in Virginia

Down in Virginia

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format. Above and at right of text reproductions of color photographs of Virginia landscape. Type-signed at end of poem: W.D. Mc. Publication date from ms. date on verso of Brown University copy.

Down in the coal mine: As sung by Tony Pastor

Text of song in five eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: Down in the coal mine, underneath the ground. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Down in our Seaford Camp

Humorous complaint about life in a military training camp, possibly during World War I. Humorous complaint about life in a military training camp, possibly during World War I. Printed on heavy paper in postcard format; postal information on verso printed in green. To be sung to the tune: Back home in Tennessee. Text of song in two eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Down in our Seaford Camp.

Down by the ferry

Down by the ferry

Brown University

Printed on heavy, glossy white paper in postcard format. At head of title reproduction of photograph of seated couple. Text of song in eight lines. "Life model series"--Verso. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Dove

Dove

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Price ... two cents. Carrier Dove's Return. At head of text: "Fly back o'er the billowy main, sweet dove." Repeats as first line. At end of text: I.H. Welton, Publisher, No. 4 Walnut St., Lowell, Mass. Poem is reply to The carrier dove by Daniel Johnson, 1836.

Dove

Dove

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Price ... two cents. Carrier Dove's Return. At head of text: "Fly back o'er the billowy main, sweet dove." Repeats as first line. At end of text: I.H. Welton, Publisher, No. 4 Walnut St., Lowell, Mass. Poem is reply to The carrier dove by Daniel Johnson, 1836.

Dove

Dove

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments. At head of title: Price ... two cents. Carrier Dove's Return. At head of text: "Fly back o'er the billowy main, sweet dove." Repeats as first line. At end of text: I.H. Welton, Publisher, No. 4 Walnut St., Lowell, Mass. Poem is reply to The carrier dove by Daniel Johnson, 1836.