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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To follow the Star Spangled Banner

At head of text: Enter Jeff. Davis and wife .. At end of text: To conclude with the Grand Tableau of Peace, page 31. Insert from J.M. Hager's Grand National Allegory and Tableaux.

To Eva descending the stair

Sylvia Plath. Title from wrapper. Detached from: Steam Press portfolio 2. London : Steam Press, 1974. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. Edition limited to 50 copies only, numbered and signed by the artist; cf. record for the whole portfolio. Poem and illustration printed on a heavy sheet and folded twice, with a larger, lighter black sheet wrapped around as a dust wrapper. First line: Clocks cry: stillness is a lie, my dear.

To Corrado Cagli

To Corrado Cagli

Brown University

Poem. French fold; printed on light gray card stock; ill. on p. [2] Caption title. On p. [1]: Corrado Cagli : March 31 through April 19, 1947. Knoedler, 14 East 57 Street, New York City. At end of text: Charles Olson. Etching on p. [2] by Corrado Cagli. "Published March 1947, not for sale. Approximately 500 copies printed"--Butterick & Glover. Reprinted as The Moebus strip in his: Y & X ([Washington, D.C.], 1948) First line: Upon a Moebus strip I saw.

To comrades overseas

To comrades overseas

Brown University

Poem lists 19 names of club members overseas and greets them. Poem lists 19 names of club members overseas and greets them. Printed on heavy tan paper in postcard format. Poem in one stansas of eight lines and another of six. Type-signed at end: Anthony van Dyke. In lower left corner: For the annual dinner of the Andiron Club, May ninth, Nineteen thirty-four. Letterhead on verso: The Andiron Club of New York City, Publishers of the Colonnade. Box 84, University Heights, New York.

To Charles I. Rice

To Charles I. Rice

Brown University

Printed on card stock. At end of poem: E.A.C. Author's name, date of Rice's death and possible place of publication from pencil notations on Brown University copy.

To Channing

To Channing

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within single line borders with corner ornaments. At end of text: His (Channing's utter sincerity would not admit of an attempt at mere rhetorical effect ..

To Channing

To Channing

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within single line borders with corner ornaments. At end of text: His (Channing's utter sincerity would not admit of an attempt at mere rhetorical effect ..

To Channing

To Channing

Brown University

Page [4] blank. Within single line borders with corner ornaments. At end of text: His (Channing's utter sincerity would not admit of an attempt at mere rhetorical effect ..

To C.E.G

To C.E.G

Brown University

Pages [2]-[4] blank. Poem in one stanza of eleven lines and one of four lines. At end of text: Selected. Christmas Day, 1908.

To Bryant College

To Bryant College

Brown University

At upper left vignette of seal of Bryant College in green. Poem in five four-line stanzas. At end of text: This poem was written and read by Mrs. Helen F. Goff of the class of 1891 at the 1968 Alumni Homecoming at Bryant College on June 15, 1968. Mrs. Goff is 95 years old ....

To Bryant College

To Bryant College

Brown University

At upper left vignette of seal of Bryant College in green. Poem in five four-line stanzas. At end of text: This poem was written and read by Mrs. Helen F. Goff of the class of 1891 at the 1968 Alumni Homecoming at Bryant College on June 15, 1968. Mrs. Goff is 95 years old ....

To be kissed

To be kissed

Brown University

Ms. facsimile. At end of text: Copyright 1885 by Mrs. E. Wooding. In right upper corner on verso: To be kissed.