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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A poem

A poem

Brown University

by Mrs. Wm. T. Baker, of Chicago, nee Eliza A. Dunster. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. At head of text: Read at Miss Gilman's Re-union of her Bradford Graduates, June 22nd, 1870, at her house, No. 134 West Chester Park, Boston, Mass. Poem in 14 stanzas of varying length.

A poem

A poem

Brown University

by Mrs. Wm. T. Baker, of Chicago, nee Eliza A. Dunster. Printed in three columns divided by single lines. At head of text: Read at Miss Gilman's Re-union of her Bradford Graduates, June 22nd, 1870, at her house, No. 134 West Chester Park, Boston, Mass. Poem in 14 stanzas of varying length.

A plea for the Philippines

At head of text: Published by the author because of his inability to otherwise reach the public.

A plea for the Philippines

At head of text: Published by the author because of his inability to otherwise reach the public.

A plea for the Philippines

At head of text: Published by the author because of his inability to otherwise reach the public.

A plan for a curriculum of the soul

Pages [2] and [3] blank. Text of poem begins in lower two/thirds of page [1] and continues clockwise to page [4] and back to page [1]. In lower right corner of page [1]: Charles Olson. Printed on cranberry cardstock as wrapper for stapled-in broadside inviting subscription and advertising available and planned issues in series "A Curriculum of the Soul" Sequential numbering next to words throughout text of poem corresponds to number and title of individual issues advertised in stapled-in flier.

A Pilgrim chant

A Pilgrim chant

Brown University

In five verses. At head of text: Editor's note:-The third stanza of this poem refers to ... a well known theory, viz:-"The rock itself ... may have been a pilgrim, drifting down in some pre-historic time upon an iceberg" At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. On p. 4: Reprinted from New England magazine. Collected in her Verses ([Cambridge, Mass.], 1912) Probable date from ms. note in Brown University copy. First line: O Pilgrim land! from over crested wave.

A Pilgrim chant

A Pilgrim chant

Brown University

In five verses. At head of text: Editor's note:-The third stanza of this poem refers to ... a well known theory, viz:-"The rock itself ... may have been a pilgrim, drifting down in some pre-historic time upon an iceberg" At end of text: Ellen Shepard Dwinnell. On p. [4]: Reprinted from New England magazine. Collected in her Verses ([Cambridge, Mass.], 1912) Probable date from ms. note in Brown University copy. First line: O Pilgrim land! from over crested wave.

A picture

A picture

Brown University

At head of text: Composed by C.L. Quimby while living in the Adirondack Mountains.

A picture

A picture

Brown University

At head of text: Composed by C.L. Quimby while living in the Adirondack Mountains.

A picnic for two

A picnic for two

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy white paper in postcard format; text on recto in brown and green, on verso in black. At head of text illustration of boy and dog with large picnic basket. Words and music of song chorus. Name of author of lyrics not on item; Albert Von Tilzer is author of music. "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.

A Penny-worth of wit. Or, The merchant reclaimed

Printed in two columns; headband of type ornaments on page [1] Caption title. Poem in three parts and 63 four-line stanzas. Third verse of pt. 1 mentions a William Lane. The use of laid paper and the presence of the "long s" suggest an 18th century date of publication.

A penny for your thought?

Poetry printed in terracotta on beige laid paper. Cover title. Typesigned at end of poem on page [3]: C.W.B. Colophon on page [4]: Copyrighted 1915 by C.W. Birrell.

A patriotic song

A patriotic song

Brown University

by Rev. Benjamin Danforth, Providence, R.I. Poetry. Within border of type ornaments, printed in three columns divided by rules; in red and blue. Date approximation because of events mentioned in poem.

A patriot creed: I believe

Printed in red and black. Poetry, listing five believes, beginning with: The moral order [First line: In God and the might of right]

A pastor's soliloquy

A pastor's soliloquy

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Dedicated to Rev. Bert J. Glazier on laying down his charge at Massena, New York April 6, 1930. First line: 'Tis done; my last work is finished.

A pastor's soliloquy

A pastor's soliloquy

Brown University

Within ornamental border. At head of text: Dedicated to Rev. Bert J. Glazier on laying down his charge at Massena, New York April 6, 1930. First line: 'Tis done; my last work is finished.

A pastor's farewell to his flock

Printed in two columns divided by curvilinear line. To be sung to the tune: Milan. Text of hymn in six numbered eight-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.