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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The wants of man

The wants of man

Brown University

At head of title: I am a cripple. I lost my arm while blasting in a quarry ..

The walking-away bored

The walking-away bored

Brown University

Pages [2] and [3] blank. Colophon and imprint information beginning "First reproduction of this drawing-poem." Tagged also as seven piece set "Picture poems by Kenneth Patchen ... Series R ..

The walker standing

The walker standing

Brown University

Printed in colors on heavy glossy paper in postcard format. Text in calligraphy superimposed on illustration of grotesque figures. On verso: Kenneth Patchen. Painting-Poem. Mixed medium, 9 1/2" x 17 1/2" Possession of the poet. Suggested publication date from acquisition date of Brown University copy.

The wake of Teddy Rowe

The wake of Teddy Rowe

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (woven pattern). Cuts of lyre, coffin and clown face besides and between title At end of text: Sold, wholesale and retail, North-west corner of Cross and Mercantile Streets, Boston William Rutter was listed at above address from 1829 to 1834

The wake of Teddy Rowe

The wake of Teddy Rowe

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (woven pattern). Cuts of lyre, coffin and clown face besides and between title At end of text: Sold, wholesale and retail, North-west corner of Cross and Mercantile Streets, Boston William Rutter was listed at above address from 1829 to 1834

The wake of Teddy Rowe

The wake of Teddy Rowe

Brown University

Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments (woven pattern). Cuts of lyre, coffin and clown face besides and between title At end of text: Sold, wholesale and retail, North-west corner of Cross and Mercantile Streets, Boston William Rutter was listed at above address from 1829 to 1834

The volunteers!

The volunteers!

Brown University

by Geo. G. B. DeWolfe. Within red and blue border of type ornaments, printed in blue in two columns divided by red single line. Illustration of unfurled United States flag below title.

The volunteer and emancipationist

Broadsheet; poetry printed in one and two columns. First poem (60 stanzas) printed in two columns; second poem on verso in one column. Expanded and altered version of The volunteer (Wolf 2472), of which, in different sequence, all verses are retained.

The volunteer

The volunteer

Brown University

Printed in two columns. Poem in 22 four-line stanzas. All verses, in different sequence, are contained in: The volunteer and emancipationist. Imprint date suggested by date of expanded version.

The voice within

The voice within

Brown University

Pages [2-4] blank. At end of text: New Year's Day 1910.

The voice of the voiceless

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poet Laureate of Humanity. Broadsheet; one poem on each side. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.

The voice of the pine

The voice of the pine

Brown University

Photograph of author. At end of text: From "All in a Garden Fair and Other Verse." Publication date from publication date of All in a garden fair.

The voice of liberty

The voice of liberty

Brown University

by Orrin E. Harmon, Liberal, Mo. July 4th, 1902. Cut of American flag on cover, illustration on cover and text within single line red border.

The voice of God, in the terrors of earthquakes: being a poetical composition occasioned by the repeated shocks, whic...

Printed in three columns divided by line of type ornaments (Reilly 756,749) Line of type ornaments (Reilly 726) at head of text; single line at end. At end of text: Printed and sold at the Printing-Office in Queen-Street. 1755. Above address was given for Edes, Gill and Kneeland in 1755. Place of publication and printers determined by internal evidence and type ornaments. Not in Bristol or Shipton Mooney.

The visitation

The visitation

Brown University

Caption title. Poem in 39 stanzas printed in black on orange paper. Typesigned at end: -Len Randolph 3 July 1976 Port Townsend, WA. In left margin, printed horizontically: Broadsheet No. 3 Second Coming Press.

The vision: A poem

The vision: A poem

Brown University

Within ornamental border printed in three columns. Illustration of a flowering vine between title and text. At end of text: Published by the C.B./Ithaca, August 25th, 1842. First line: Kind Reader. I, despite the hardness of the times.