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 benediction

A benediction

Brown University

Title from cover. Contains verses from the Bible. Title within a border of type ornaments with an illustration of a cross. Text within a single line ruled border.

A ballad on the Vicksburg Canal

by D.C., Co. K, 11th Reg. Mo. Vol. Within double line border. At end of text, below border: Memphis Bulletin Print, Telegraph Building.

A ballad on the Vicksburg Canal

by D.C., Co. K, 11th Reg. Mo. Vol. Within double line border. At end of text, below border: Memphis Bulletin Print, Telegraph Building.

A ballad of the road

A ballad of the road

Brown University

Poetry. Type-signed at end: Eleanor Custis Shallcross. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of the beard

A ballad of the beard

Brown University

W. K. Page [4] blank. On page [1] reproduction of photograph of Hope and Watson Kirkconnell. Caption title. Poem in 10 four-line stanzas.

A ballad of Shiloh

A ballad of Shiloh

Brown University

Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. By a 46th Ohio Volunteer. Poem in 35 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates because poem states a captain later fell in Georgia so probably written after the war, and from internal evidence.

A ballad of Shiloh

A ballad of Shiloh

Brown University

Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. By a 46th Ohio Volunteer. Poem in 35 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates because poem states a captain later fell in Georgia so probably written after the war, and from internal evidence.

A ballad of Shiloh

A ballad of Shiloh

Brown University

Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. Poem accuses unnamed Union generals of cowardice. By a 46th Ohio Volunteer. Poem in 35 four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates because poem states a captain later fell in Georgia so probably written after the war, and from internal evidence.

A ballad of Santa Claus

A ballad of Santa Claus

Brown University

Page [4] blank. At head of text: Composed by Henry Van Dyke for the occasion of the annual dinner of the St. Nicholas Society, December 6th, 1907.

A baby's death

A baby's death

Brown University

Printed in dark and light green on cream paper. Illustration of flowering sprays at top and upper left and right. Six four-line stanzas selected and rearranged from Swinburne's poem. At end of text: A. C. Swinbourne [i.e. Swinburne] Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

91 words for Joanna

91 words for Joanna

Brown University

Printed in black and violet on heacy ivory paper with deckled lower edge within violet double-line border with ornamental corners. Each line of poem except last contains five words; last line one word. Type-signed at end: Michael McClure. Place and date of imprint from Lepper, p. 302.

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69

Brown University

Poem in three eight-line stanzas. Type-signed at end: William Hobart Royce. March 20, 1947.