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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Though youth decay and beauty please no more

Printed on green paper in four columns. Title from first line of first poem. Eighty-eight two-line poems dealing with love and courtship. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Though outwardly a gloomy shroud

Printed in red and gray on heavy white paper in postcard format within ornamental border; text on recto in red, on verso in gray. Title from first line. Poem in six lines. Suggested publication date from postmark on Brown University copy.

Though humble and low be my rank

Title from first line. At head of title: Respectfully dedicated to the clerks of the Market National Bank, by their fellow clerk, James McMahon, in appreciation of the testimonial received from them December 25th, 1867. At end of text: "Coupon Observer"

Thou holy one

Thou holy one

Brown University

At head of text: Dedicated to General Ballington Booth and wife. Tune: America.

Thou gracious power, whose mercy lends

Currier, p. 138; Wilson II, 563. Dated at end: "Jan. 6th, 1869." Title from first line. Hymn for the 1869 reunion of the Harvard University Class of 1829.

Thou God seest me

Thou God seest me

Brown University

Printed on heavy paper within yellow ornamental border bearing legend beginning: Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth. At head of title cut of boy with sketch pad beside woman holding baby. Poem in three four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Those that seek me early shall find me

Printed in colors on heavy paper within ornamental border; title in red, text in brown. At head of text colored illustration of woman with two little girls praying. Poem in two four-line stanzas. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

Those slippery stones

Those slippery stones

Brown University

Printed on card stock. Advertisement for Hunt's Coal. Contains poetry. Colored illustration of young man standing on stepping stones and girl on bank. Title from first line.

Those pleasant rivers

Those pleasant rivers

Brown University

Pages [1,4] blank. At head of title: Reprinted from The Evangelical May 12, 1897. At end of text: Written in Dresden, Germany, June 27, 1873. Page [1]: Those pleasant rivers. A sonnet ..

Those pictures on the wall!

Printed in three columns with four illustrations in text. At end of text below double rule: [Compo]sed by Byron DeWolfe, of Nashua.

Those pictures on the wall!

Printed in three columns with four illustrations in text. At end of text below double rule: [Compo]sed by Byron DeWolfe, of Nashua.

Thomas Moorhead, a ship-wreck'd mariner: who subsisted fifty-one days on the bodies of his comrades. Taken off the wr...

Printed area: 25.2 x 17.4 cm. Prose account followed by a poem on the shipwreck. Within mourning border, printed in two columns divided by heavy single line. Wood-engraving of wrecked ship on left of title. First line: Particulars given by the wrecked. First line of poem: While reading o'er the dismal fate.

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Brown University

Poem in fourteen lines. At end of text: Dedicated to immortal Nathan Hale of Connecticut by William Kimberley Palmer. Chicopee, Massachusetts U.S.A. 1930 A.D.

Thomas Hood: 1799-1845

Thomas Hood: 1799-1845

Brown University

Walter J. Coates. Printed on birch bark with irregularly cut edges; line of type ornaments at top. Poem in one stanza of eight lines and one of six. At end of text: East Calais, June 2, 1919. From "Mood Songs", 1921.

Tho Thou slay me

Tho Thou slay me

Brown University

by Mrs. Edna Powers. Broadsheet printed in purple on glossy white paper. Poem on recto. On verso prose essay entitled: God's will ... not mine. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.