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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Dear Ferlinghetti: Dear Jack : the Spicer/Ferlinghetti correspondence

Folded vertically. Printed on tan paper. Stamplike cut of sitting rabbit captioned: White Rabbit in upper right corner of page [1] possible printer's mark. Includes letter from Spicer to Ferlinghetti concerning placing of Spicer's book in bookshop and Ferlinghetti's reply headed: City Lights Bookshop, dated 12 March, 1964, and with typed signature: Open Face; also includes advertisement for Spicer's The holy grail, and 13-line poem.

Dear Alfred Charles Kinsey

Poetry. Peach-colored paper printed and illustrated in brown, light green, and red-brown. Below and at left of text illustration of insect on leaf. Type-signed at end: Richard Tagett 9/70.

Dean Stanley

Dean Stanley

Brown University

Sonnet. At end of text: Wm. Pitt Palmer. New York, Dec. 1878.

Deacon Jones' experience

Bret Harte. Broadsheet. Cf. BAL 7276. At head of text: Arkansas Conference. 1874. Card with reproduction of A. M. Willard painting on recto, Harte's poem printed on verso.

Deacon Jones' experience

Bret Harte. Broadsheet. Cf. BAL 7276. At head of text: Arkansas Conference. 1874. Card with reproduction of A. M. Willard painting on recto, Harte's poem printed on verso.

Deacon Giles' distillery

At head of text four engravings with captions by Miles St. John; text printed in 5 columns beneath. At head of text: From the Salem Landmark. "Inquire at Amos Giles' Distillery" At end of text: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by Miles St. John .. Title of above is also: The dream. Cf. [Cheever, G.B.]: The dream: or the true history of Deacon Giles' distillery, and Deacon Jones' brewery. (76/C5155d/1848) The piece appeared originally in the Landmark, vol. 1, no. 46, Salem, Mass., 1835.

De nativitate Domini

De nativitate Domini

Brown University

Notkerus Balbulus. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of house. Latin poem and English translation on opposite pages.

David B. Hill and the A.P.A

Campaign song attacks Hill, Tammany Hall and Roman Catholics; Hill was a Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination. Campaign song attacks Hill, Tammany Hall and Roman Catholics; Hill was a Democratic candidate for the presidential nomination. By E.A.W. Printed in two columns. Text of song in eight six-line stanzas.

Davenport Gap

Davenport Gap

Brown University

Poem. Broadsheet, issued in postcard format. At end of poem: Jonathan Williams, from Elegies and celebrations. Printed in olive green and black typeface on ivory paper. On verso: Jargon billboard #1 Highlands, N.C., 28741 December 1963.

Daughters of world wide democracy: to Constance-Sylvia and Claire-Eleanor and also dedicated to the members of a nati...

Broadsheet; folded into thirds as mailer. At head of text: Oracled in accord with Pythagorian numerical philosophy. At end of text of poem: Copyrighted 1918. International copyright reserved. Johnelle H. Shaftesbury nom de plume of the Founder. On verso portrait of founder in first panel; information on society in second panel; imprint information in third panel: Published by J.H. Shaftesbury & Co., Lock Box 431, Chicago, U.S.A. Enrollment form tipped on: Daughters of World Wide Democracy's pledge. Facsimile author autograph on verso: Eleanor R. A. Bennett.

Das alte und das neue Herz

Printed in two columns divided by single line within border of type ornament sections. Printed area measures: 20.7 x 13.1 cm. One poem in each column, each headed by a Bible quotation and the word "Hart," and containing nine four-line stanzas. Second poem begins: Komm Heil'ger Geist, o komm. At end of text within border: Gedruckt für Friederich Hasted.--1845.

Darkness invocation

Darkness invocation

Brown University

Diane di Prima. Printed in colors on white paper. At left, above and below text colored illustration includes Madonna and dragon. Poem.

Dark morning: poem

Dark morning: poem

Brown University

by Cid Corman. First edition. "Friends of the K.S.U. Libraries."

Dark clouds hung o'er the wintry sky

Title from first line. At end of text: Metropolitan Job Print, 28 Ann Street, New York. Advertises lunchroom at 12 Ann St., New York; another broadside names Dennett's Lunchroom at this address (cf. Brown University HB7177/NY) Date from internal evidence.

Darby and Joan: Christmas, 1890

Page [4] blank. On page [3] reproduction of photograph of old couple. Poem in three six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: E. Cavazza.

Darby and Joan: Christmas, 1890

Page [4] blank. On page [3] reproduction of photograph of old couple. Poem in three six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: E. Cavazza.

Darby and Joan: Christmas, 1890

Page [4] blank. On page [3] reproduction of photograph of old couple. Poem in three six-line stanzas. Type-signed at end of poem: E. Cavazza.