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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American child II

American child II

Brown University

by Paul Engle. Cover title. Off-white paper printed and illustrated in burnt sienna and black. From American Child, 1956. On cover: Christmas 1955.

American Allied bazaar: English-Welsh night

Vignette of lyre at center of page [1] Cover title. Program of concert by Philharmonic Chorus on May 29, 1917. Place of publication from printers' union label on page [1] Text of six songs beginning with The star spangled banner; two Welsh songs, Men of Harlech and All through the night, are included.

American Allied bazaar: English-Welsh night

Vignette of lyre at center of page [1] Cover title. Program of concert by Philharmonic Chorus on May 29, 1917. Place of publication from printers' union label on page [1] Text of six songs beginning with The star spangled banner; two Welsh songs, Men of Harlech and All through the night, are included.

American Allied bazaar: English-Welsh night

Vignette of lyre at center of page [1] Cover title. Program of concert by Philharmonic Chorus on May 29, 1917. Place of publication from printers' union label on page [1] Text of six songs beginning with The star spangled banner; two Welsh songs, Men of Harlech and All through the night, are included.

America's lamentation

America's lamentation

Brown University

America mourns the death of her son Washington; poem contains Masonic allusions. America mourns the death of her son Washington; poem contains Masonic allusions. Poem in eleven numbered five-line stanzas. Printed area measures: 25.0 x 9.5 cm. Publication date suggested because of the type face, and because Washington died in December 1799. Other editions of this poem are entitled Columbia's lamentation over Washington, Lamentation for General Washington, and On the death of General Washington. This edition not in Evans, Bristol, Wegelin or the Checklist Amer. imprints.

America's grand sage

America's grand sage

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by single line. At head of title portrait of George Washington; above it cut of eagle with shield and scroll inscribed: E pluribus unum. At head of text: The following fine poem, written soon after Gen. Washington's death (by his widow, it is supposed) has been set to music by Mr. David Coye .... At end of text: Price ten cents. Suggested place of publication and range of publication dates because David Coye, of Unadilla, published other broadside poems there in the 1870's.

America: O thou, America--Messiah of nations!

by James Whitcomb Riley. Printed in red, blue, gold and black on heavy white paper in postcard format; text in black. At left of title gold embossed figure of Statue of Liberty in front of American flag; on verso colored shield with stars and stripes in place for stamp. Poem in three eight-line stanzas.

America, we love you so

America, we love you so

Brown University

Lila Hurley. Processed copy. Text of song in two seven-line stanzas with four-line refrain beginning: Here peace and justice native grow. Suggested publication date from internal evidence.

America, on guard!

America, on guard!

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At end of text: Composed April, 1942.