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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Belgium

Belgium

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by David Starr Jordan and Raymond Macdonald Alden ... October 9, 1915. Page [4] blank. Cover title. Poem in eleven stanzas of varying length.

Belgium

Belgium

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by David Starr Jordan and Raymond Macdonald Alden ... October 9, 1915. Page [4] blank. Cover title. Poem in eleven stanzas of varying length.

Beginnings

Beginnings

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At end of text: Howard Aaron Printed in blue on bluish-gray paper

Begin to-day: hymn

Begin to-day: hymn

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by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with four-line chorus beginning: "Begin today," in faith that has no ending.

Before you thought of spring

First line same as title. Colophon on verso: The Unbound Anthology. The Poets' Guild Christodora House ... New York City ... From The complete poems ... Little, Brown and Company.

Beecher at the opera

Beecher at the opera

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Printed on pink paper in 2 columns divided by single line. At head text: A report, as published in the New York Daily Journal .. At end of text: For sale by Columbian Book & News Co. ..

Beecher at the opera

Beecher at the opera

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Printed on pink paper in 2 columns divided by single line. At head text: A report, as published in the New York Daily Journal .. At end of text: For sale by Columbian Book & News Co. ..

Beecher at the opera

Beecher at the opera

Brown University

Printed on pink paper in 2 columns divided by single line. At head text: A report, as published in the New York Daily Journal .. At end of text: For sale by Columbian Book & News Co. ..

Beauty Lane

Beauty Lane

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Printed in red, green and brown on heavy white paper in postcard format. At head of text illustration of sitting hen with woman's head. Text and music of song chorus; music by Von Tilzer. "By permission of Copyright MCMVI by the York Music Co. Albert Von Tilzer Mgr. 40 West 28th St. New York"--Colophon. "No. 4600 Music Series"--Verso.

Beautiful Willamette River

By Samuel L. Simpson. Within ornamental border. Poem in four stanzas. At end of text: The compositor who set this type and made up the form is past 80 years old.

Beautiful hands

Beautiful hands

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Pasted on gilt-edged cardboard. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Beautiful hands

Beautiful hands

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Pasted on gilt-edged cardboard. Poem in four eight-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Beatnik Christmas tale

Beatnik Christmas tale

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A parody of Clement C. Moore's poem, The night before Christmas. Reproduced from typescript. First line: 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the pad.

Beatnik Christmas tale

Beatnik Christmas tale

Brown University

A parody of Clement C. Moore's poem, The night before Christmas. Reproduced from typescript. First line: 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the pad.

Beat

Beat

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At end of text: Barry Spacks / 20 Fiske House / Wellesley Massachusetts.

Bear Brand Story. No. 32

by Nellie Bair. Dialect poem advertising Bear Brand stockings made by Paramount Knitting Company. At end of text on verso information about Bear Brand prize story contest.

Beacon lights

Beacon lights

Brown University

Within single line border with ornamental corners.