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 dreamer cometh

A dreamer cometh

Brown University

Printed on wheat-colored paper in two columns. At left of title, vignette of burning lamp on stand; at end of text below signature vignette of bird and leaf spray. At head of text: "Behold, this dreamer!"--Bible. Poem in six six-line stanzas. At end of text: Walter J. Coates Feb. 6, 1919.

A dream, and Dr. Watts' Ode on the Day of Judgment

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 503) Printed area measures: 24.8 x 17.9 cm. Date suggested by appearance of item and type face; Reilly notes use of rosette type ornaments in Boston and other cities beginning in 1722.

A dream, and Dr. Watts' Ode on the Day of Judgment

Poetry. Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 503) Printed area measures: 24.8 x 17.9 cm. Date suggested by appearance of item and type face; Reilly notes use of rosette type ornaments in Boston and other cities beginning in 1722.

A dream in brick: for Boston

Poetry. Printed on card stock. At left of poem rectangular illustration of brick wall. Type-signed at end of poem: Jerry Ratch, printed by Julia Watson. Colophon below illustration: Free 9/70 Posse Press 1.

A dream

A dream

Brown University

Printed in two columns.

A dream

A dream

Brown University

Printed in two columns.

A doleful ditty

A doleful ditty

Brown University

by Mr. Mors, (deceased) Within coffin-shaped black border, with cut of single coffin above border. Beneath bottom border, cut of boy in graveyard. Quotations from Hoyle and Shakespeare at head of text.

A dissertation on the Rev. Jonas Clarke's seat at Lexington

Poetry and prose. Printed in blue on cream-colored paper; type ornaments on page [1] Poem in 23 four-line stanzas on pages [2-4] At head of title on page [1]: The following poem is supposed to have been written by John Mascarene, a Spanish student, living in the family of Dr. Henry Ware, at Cambridge, and presented to his daughter, Lucy Clarke Ware. It was probably written sometime between 1800 and 1805, the date of Mr. Clarke's death. Date from acquisition date by previous owner. First line of poem: At it's [sic] approach you view an elm.

A dissertation on the Rev. Jonas Clarke's seat at Lexington

Poetry and prose. At head of title on page [1]: The enclosed poem is supposed to have been written by John Mascarene, a Spanish student, living in the family of Dr. Henry Ware, at Cambridge, and presented to his daughter, Lucy Clarke Ware, whose daughter presented it to Lexington Historical Society, 1898. The poem was probably written sometime between 1800 and 1805, the date of Mr. Clarke's death. Reproduction of photograph of the house on page [1] Poem in 23 four-line stanzas on pages [2-4] First line of poem: At it's [sic] approach you view an elm.

A dishonest man

A dishonest man

Brown University

Poem in eight four-line stanzas, ending with a four-line Epitaph on a man dead to all moral honesty. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A design for angels

A design for angels

Brown University

Margaret Dole McCall. Printed on heavy white paper in postcard format. Two poems. At end of text: Please tune in on each Christmas ray & Happy New Year from Margaret Dole McCall.

A day lost!

A day lost!

Brown University

At head of title: Printed in Rev. Wm. S. Barnes' Paper. At head of text: (A writer says, "that day is lost on which some good deed is not performed.")

A dandy song

A dandy song

Brown University

Printed in three columns. Date approximation suggested by internal evidence.