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 memorial of John Woolman

Within single line border with corner ornaments. Available information indicates Stuckey as printing on Arch and Seventh in the later 19th century. This memorial could have been issued for the 100th anniversary of Woolman's death. At end of text below single line on page [1]: Stuckey, Printer, S.E. corner of Arch and Seventh sts, Philadelphia.

A memorial of John Woolman

Within single line border with corner ornaments. Available information indicates Stuckey as printing on Arch and Seventh in the later 19th century. This memorial could have been issued for the 100th anniversary of Woolman's death. At end of text below single line on page [1]: Stuckey, Printer, S.E. corner of Arch and Seventh sts, Philadelphia.

A memorial

A memorial

Brown University

1 broadsheet. Printed in green with floral border framing upper part of text. At end of text: By permission of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

A meditation upon the glory of God

French fold; printed on double leaves. At head of text: Written 13 February 1687 by the Rev. Edward Taylor ... Set into type from the original manuscript ... in January of 1949.

A meditation on ten oxherding pictures

Advertising for L. Clifton's Ten oxherding pictures "inspired by a series of allegorical pictures attributed to the 12th century Chinese Zen master Kaku-an shi-en"; with background information on the advertised edition, short biography of author, and history of book's creation. Advertising for L. Clifton's Ten oxherding pictures "inspired by a series of allegorical pictures attributed to the 12th century Chinese Zen master Kaku-an shi-en"; with background information on the advertised edition, short biography of author, and history of book's creation. Poetry and prose. Caption title. Printed in black on ivory paper. Folded vertically into thirds displaying brush-stroke drawing of Chinese abstraction on outside fold. "Ten oxherding pictures was designed and printed by Felicia Rice and her typography class." Colophon at end of text: Moving Parts Press, 220 Baldwin Street, Santa Cruz, California, 95060. Dated from book's publication date.

A manse by the river

A manse by the river

Brown University

Printed in red and green on heavy glossy white paper within green border of type ornaments. At head of title illustration of house in red. Title from first line. Poem in four four-line stanzas followed by holiday good wishes and invitation to open house Jan. 1, 1975. "We wish you a joyous Christmas and a Happy New Year. Deborah and Dana Greeley."

A man's word for woman

A man's word for woman

Brown University

Within double line border with corner ornaments. First line: By this we hold:-No man is wholly great.

A man saw a ball of gold

Ron Padgett. Pages [3]-[4] blank. Printed in colors on heavy glossy white paper; text in black. On page [1] reproduction of color photograph of gilt-framed painting of seated Christ. On page [2] poem in two stanzas of varying length.

A man of kindness, to his beast is kind

Printed on glossy card stock within chain border of type ornament sections; two holes for hanging in upper margin. Title from first line. Eight-line poem. At end of text: Shaker Home. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A lover disregards names

by Diane Wakoski. Poem. Printed in gray on orange paper; with rubricated initial. First line: Do people live up. Title from verso. Originally issued as part of Burning Deck postcards : The first ten.

A love song

A love song

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments. Text of song in 17 four-line stanzas with two-line chorus beginning: And yet I hate to let you know. In lower margin below line of type ornaments: Printed and sold at No. 25, High Street, Providence, where are kept for sale 200 other kinds. Henry Trumbull used this address from 1826 to 1836.

A lost poem

A lost poem

Brown University

Of this first printing, one hundred copies have been printed for the friends of Harvety Taylor

A long tired poem

A long tired poem

Brown University

Broadsheet; poetry; on tan paper. At end of poem: John Sinclair, Detroit House of Correction 15 June 1966. At end of text: free poems among friends / s.f. contributions are needed & should be sent direct to the Detroit Artist's Workshop ... "Free poems among friends" had its beginnings in San Francisco in the Spring of 1965. By September of that year publication was continued until 1967 by the Detroit Artist's Workshop, later Detroit Artists' Workshop Press. (See "Free poems among friends, Vol. 1, p. [3])"

A living gift He gave

A living gift He gave

Brown University

Printed in purple on glossy white paper. At right of title cut of head of Jesus Christ. Poem in five stanzas of varying length. Type-signed at end of poem: Ruth Prentice. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.