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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Year: a Wednesday paper supplement

by Angus MacLise. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into twelths, creating 24 pages. Printed in red and black. Subtitle on inside fold: "Printed by the Dead Language ... with a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley of Saint Rose of Lima ... "

Year: a Wednesday paper supplement

by Angus MacLise. 1 broadsheet. Broadsheet folded into twelths, creating 24 pages. Printed in red and black. Subtitle on inside fold: "Printed by the Dead Language ... with a drawing by Aubrey Beardsley of Saint Rose of Lima ... "

Ye hearts of men with purpose high!

Title from first line. Text of song in seven numbered six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from repeated mention of "fifty years" of Alpha Delta Phi's existence; the fraternity was founded in 1832.

Ye gambolier

Ye gambolier

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Poem in seven numbered four-line stanzas. Author's name not on item. Attributed to John Hay by donor, Mrs. Clarence Hay. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Ye gallant sophomore

Ye gallant sophomore

Brown University

Poetry. To be sung to the tune: Ye man that takes his lager beer. Humorous song in three stanzas with chorus about adventures of sophomore at a university in Ithaca, who escapes from a madhouse in Utica but is unrecognized by his keeper among the other lunaticlike sophomores. At head of text: Second edition. At end of poem: C. F. A. Author's full name not printed on item; taken from pencil notation on Hay Library copy. Date suggested because footnote substituting "ye gallant '74" for "ye gallant sophomore" indicates hero is member of class of 1874; Cornell University, in Ithaca, held first classes in 1868--Encycl. of Amer. facts and dates, New York, 6th ed., 1972, p. 275. First line: There is in sober Ithaca.

Ye criticke

Ye criticke

Brown University

Printed in three columns. At end of poem: Greensburg, Pa., Aug. 15th, 1865.

Ye Copperhead

Ye Copperhead

Brown University

Within double border, inner one single-line, outer one curvilinear. Poem in twelve four-line stanzas, with prose introduction defining the copperhead snake. At head of text: By One of Abraham's Chosen Children. Wishes to make the northern Copperheads share the soldiers' discomforts and dangers.

Ye colonial Dames of modern time

Pages [2,4] blank. Printed in brown. Headband at head of title; initial block. At end of text: Ornamental border. Author identified in poem.

Ye Christmas bells

Ye Christmas bells

Brown University

Poem, issued as a Christmas card. At end of text: Eugene Field. Page [4] blank. On p. [1], cameo ill. of "Madonna Granduca" by Raphael, with decorative border. "Otherwise 'Christmas hymn' in 'A little book of Western verse,' 1889"--BAL. On p. [2]: Typogravure card ... [copyright] Washington Cathedral, Mt. St. Alban, D.C. [Logo:] Pride Mark, Baltimore, New York. Made in U.S.A. Printed in olive green on light brown card stock. First line: Sing Christmas bells!

Yankee's return from camp

Printed in two columns. At head of title in center wood-engraving of seated officer under a tree, addressing militiamen. Imprint information suggested by comparison with broadside "Hunters of Kentucky" (HB1596) Authorship of this version of Yankee Doodle attributed to Edward Bangs. See S.F. Damon "Yankee Doodle", p. 6.

Yankee sailors

Yankee sailors

Brown University

At head of text: For Cuba libré, 1898. At end of text: Senex.

Yankee sailors

Yankee sailors

Brown University

At head of text: For Cuba libré, 1898. At end of text: Senex.

Yankee sailors

Yankee sailors

Brown University

At head of text: For Cuba libré, 1898. At end of text: Senex.

Yankee management, or, A lesson to John Bull

Poem. Printed in two columns; printed area: 19.7 x 13.1 cm. At end of text: Printed and sold at No. 26, High-Street Providence--Where Shopkeepers, Pedlars, and others can be supplied .. The poem with changed stanzaic arrangement is also known under the title: The Parliament of England. Imprint date suggested by the Providence Directory listing of Henry Trumbull at above address for 1824 only.

Yankee land

Yankee land

Brown University

Pages [2,4] blank. Page [1]: By Marv.