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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And so you bid me go

And so you bid me go

Brown University

Bruce Bawer. Poetry. Printed on cream paper; title in blue-gray; right edge of page [1] deckled. First line same as title. Colophon on page [4]: There are 200 copies of this keepsake printed from Spectrum types by Michael Peich at the Aralia Press. One hundred forty copies are on Letterpress Text. Sixty copies ... are on Rives Heavy, numbered, and signed by the author.

And I, too, sing the song of all creation

Title from first line. Pages [2-3] blank. Illus. in orange, black and gold. On page [4] Impression leaflets. Edited by Paul Elder. Designed by Harold Sichel ..

And I say to mankind, be not curious about God

Printed in red, green, tan and black on heavy white paper within decorative border on page [1]; colored design on page [2] Title from first line. Type-signed at end: Walt Whitman.

And I say to mankind, be not curious about God

Printed in red, green, tan and black on heavy white paper within decorative border on page [1]; colored design on page [2] Title from first line. Type-signed at end: Walt Whitman.

And how do you see yourself, Mrs. Waldrop?

Broadsheet. Poetry. Advertising flyer printed on yellow paper in brown with detachable upper one-fourth bearing legend: Open Places, Box 2353, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri 65201. At end of poem: Rosmarie Waldrop. On verso: in upper fourth, order form; in lower three fourths printed horizontally advertising for her "The aggressive ways of the casual stranger" First line: If I believe only what I see I'm bulging.

And forbid them not

And forbid them not

Brown University

At end of text: Published in the San Francisco Examiner May 25, 1948, in connection with the United Nations Appeal for Children.

And Deering's Woods are fresh and fair

Printed in red and black on heavy paper in postcard format within wavy red border. At head of title reproduction of landscape photograph captioned: Deering's Oaks, Portland, Me. Title from first line of five-line stanza. Type-signed at end: Longfellow. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Anabase

Anabase

Brown University

Seguita dalle traduzione di T.S. Eliot e Giuseppe Ungaretti ; illustrata da Berrocal Announcement of publication of book.

An unfortunate girl's life

Printed on pink paper. At head of title illustration of horseshoe inscribed: Good luck. Poem in three eight-line stanzas. At end of poem: Very truly yours, Miss Lottie Smith. Price: Anything you wish to give. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

An original hymn written to be sung by the children of the Public Schools, on the occasion of planting, in the Cambri...

Pages [1] and [4] blank. Poetry in 6 four-line stanzas captioned "Hymn" on page [3] Title with date and place on page [2] Author's name not on piece. AUthor attribution from a letter written March 24, 1936, by Harvard College Library Assistant Librarian Walter B. Briggs: The 'Cambridge Chronicle' for May 6, 1876 gives the poem; it does not state the author. The 'Cambridge Press' for May 6, 1876 states that "All present sang to the tune of 'Old Hundred" an original hymn, written by Mr. John Owen". Without question, Mr. John Owen was the author.

An oration delivered at Poker Hotel by the Rev. Mr. Give 'Em Fits

Humorous poem about disputes in Danvers about taxation and new schoolhouse. Humorous poem about disputes in Danvers about taxation and new schoolhouse. Printed in two columns divided by single line. Poem in 23 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication date from reference to Kansas and 'bleeding Danvers", referring to pre-Civil War conflict in "bleeding Kansas."

An open prose poem to Congress

Poetry Poetry Printed in two columns Type-signed at end: T-3 Jerome Z. Litt, U.S. Army. Hay Broadsds Harris copy: Ms. signature "T/4 Frederick E. Altieri, U.S. Army"; stamped "Rec'd JAN 16 1946. Ans'd [blank]"; fold traces.

An open letter to the poets of America

Caption title. Poetry in thirty-two lines printed in black on lavender paper. Typesigned at end: Leonard Randolph. Colophon in lower margin: Set at NewCompGraphics, Beyond Baroqie Foundation, Venice, Ca. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence.

An omen for Stevie Smith: 'Being alive is like being in enemy territory.'

Poetry. Printed in black on buff paper with gray deckled lower edge. At end of poem: Jonathan Williams. Colophon at end: One hundred copies of this unpublished poem handset and printed at the Bibliographical Press--Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, New Haven 1977. First line: This is your Aunt.

An old verse

An old verse

Brown University

At head of text: The following specimen of ingenious versification was published in a Philadelphia paper while the fate of Burgoyne was in doubt. It may be read three different ways .... In the first reading the Revolutionary cause is condemned, and by the others it is encouraged and lauded. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

An old riddle

An old riddle

Brown University

At head of text: Fifty or sixty years ago ... guessing riddles was a popular form of amusement .... Composed by Isaac Rice, Sr. Newport, R.I.

An old poem

An old poem

Brown University

Written about the year 1835 by Mrs. Hannah Saunders (widow of Arnold Saunders,) who died in 1850. Printed in two columns. Poem in 85 four-line stanzas.

An old home

An old home

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. "Copyright, 1912, by Westcott Wickham"--Verso.

An old home

An old home

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. "Copyright, 1912, by Westcott Wickham"--Verso.

An old home

An old home

Brown University

Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Poem in seven four-line stanzas. "Copyright, 1912, by Westcott Wickham"--Verso.