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.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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A prayer

A prayer

Brown University

Within single line border.

A prayer

A prayer

Brown University

Within border of type ornaments.

A prayer

A prayer

Brown University

Poetry. Printed in green on cream card stock. At end of poem: Jeffrey Akard. Colophon in lower margin. Publication date suggested because at least one of Postcard Series #1 published in 1989.

A poetical dissuasive against vanity

Within border of type ornaments. Poem in six numbered four-line stanzas. Printed area measures: 21.7 x 11.5 cm. Type-signed at end of poem: L.S. Not in Bristol, Shipton & Mooney or Checklist Amer. imprints through 1819. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A poetical dissuasive against vanity

Within border of type ornaments. Poem in six numbered four-line stanzas. Printed area measures: 21.7 x 11.5 cm. Type-signed at end of poem: L.S. Not in Bristol, Shipton & Mooney or Checklist Amer. imprints through 1819. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A poetical dissuasive against vanity

Within border of type ornaments. Poem in six numbered four-line stanzas. Printed area measures: 21.7 x 11.5 cm. Type-signed at end of poem: L.S. Not in Bristol, Shipton & Mooney or Checklist Amer. imprints through 1819. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A poetic tribute to Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: a man whom threats could not intimidate nor bribe...

By Charles Smith, Yorkville, N.Y. Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line within border of type ornament sections. Quatrain at head of main poem, beginning: He pin'd his faith to no man's sleeve. Publication date suggested because in the poem Johnson is President, and a mention of "hostile foes" suggests the disputes leading to Johnson's impeachment.

A poet speaks to the court

by Walter Lowenfels. Suggested place of publication from typed address on p. [4]: For further copies address: Walter Lowenfels, Weymouth Road, Mays Landing, New Jersey. Suggested publication date from mention of death "this year" of Albert Einstein; Einstein died in 1955.

A poem: Sullivan and Ryan

by Thos. B. Evans. Cover title; printed in black. Poetry in 18 four-line stanzas printed in blue on pages [2] and [3] Page [4] blank. Describes the prizefight between Sullivan and Ryan on February 7, 1882 in Mississippi City, Miss., and exhorts the two to use their strength for causes other than boxing, giving Irish heroes as examples for emulation.

A poem, written by Polly Gould

Poetry. The second poem "Christ's crucifixion" is attributed to John Adam Granada by Richard Hulan (See "John Adam Granade: The "Wild Man" fo Goose Creek" in: Western Folklore, 1974, pp. 77-87) "A poem written ..." is a combination of two poems. The last eight stanzas are Wells Currier's: Elegy on the death of Miss Gould.

A poem, written by a gentlewoman in the country

Printed in three columns. At left of title wood-engraving of kneeling woman. At end of third column below rule: Boston: Printed and sold near Liberty-Pole. Not in Shipton and Mooney or Bristol. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A poem on those unfortunate persons who perished in the late storm, which happened on the 11th September, 1804

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by heavy black line within mourning border. At head of title wood-engraving of six coffins. Printed area measures: 29.6 x 15.8 cm. At end of text: Captain Luce, and Messrs Lewis and Blaney are found and buried--likewise, several others, whose names we have not learned--It is supposed upwards of twenty persons perished in this gale, on our coast. Poem in sixteen numbered four-line stanzas. In lower margin: Price 3 cents. Not in Evans, Bristol or Shaw & Shoemaker. First line: Ye sailors all, who e'er you be.