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"Experiment" No. 1., or, The blessings of liberty!

Description:
Poem attacks President Andrew Jackson for his intention to destroy the national bank.
Year:
1834
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Jackson, Andrew > 1767-1845 > Poetry
Political poetry
United States > History > 1815-1861 > Poetry
United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861 > Poetry
United States > Maine > Portland
Local ID:
HB12369 E
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

1856. Fourth of July ode!

Description:
  • by Josiah Lord Thomas, Esq.
  • Printed in three columns divided by single lines within border of type ornament sections.
  • Place of publication suggested because Brown …
Year:
1856
Contributor:
Thomas, Josiah Lord. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Fourth of July > Poetry
Political poetry
Presidents > United States > Election > 1856 > Poetry
United States > Maine > Portland
Local ID:
HB20928
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Acrostic dedicated to Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Description:
  • Broadsheet.
  • To be sung to the tune: Fair Harvard.
  • Poem in three stanzas, with initial letters of all but last three lines spelling Franklin Delano …
Year:
1932
Contributor:
Smiley, James L. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) > 1882-1945 > Poetry
Political poetry
United States > Maryland > Annapolis
Local ID:
HB14473
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges?

Description:
  • Title from first lines.
  • Text within gilded corner ornaments.
  • Type-signed at end of poem: Walt Whitman (1860)
  • At end of text: A Christmas greeting from …
Year:
1975
Contributor:
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 (creator)
Silver, Rollo G. (Rollo Gabriel), 1909-1989 (publisher)
Silver, Alice. (publisher)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Political poetry
United States > Politics and government > 1857-1861 > Poetry
United States > Massachusetts > Boston
Local ID:
HB18148
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Away down yonder in the White House

Description:
  • Printed on heavy yellow paper within ornamental border.
  • At end of text: Price 10 cents each. Copyright applied for by J.F. Weybright, Pawnee City, Neb.
Year:
1908
Contributor:
Weybright, J. F. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Bryan, William Jennings > 1860-1925 > Poetry
Taft, William H. (William Howard) > 1857-1930 > Poetry
Presidents > United States > Election > 1908 > Poetry
Campaign literature, 1908 > Republican
Political poetry
United States > Politics and government > 1901-1909 > Poetry
United States > Nebraska > Pawnee City
Local ID:
HB17449
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Blister song

Description:
  • At head of text: Tune of "Maryland, my Maryland."
Year:
1920
Contributor:
Mansur, W. H. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
League of Nations > Poetry
Political poetry
Local ID:
HB2191
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

The bloody shirt

Description:
  • Printed in two columns divided by single line.
  • Within double-line border.
  • At head of title: No. 1. Issued by the Short Tract Committee of New …
Year:
1876
Contributor:
Ottarson, Frank J. (creator)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Tilden, Samuel J. (Samuel Jones) > 1814-1886 > Poetry
Political poetry
Campaign literature > United States
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Poetry
Local ID:
HB2782
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Blow up the cabinet! Maine election!: Major Downing's account of the blow up of the cabinet at Washington, on the receipt of the news!

Description:
  • Wood-engraving of man holding signboard on which text of broadside is printed in three columns.
  • Letter dated Sept. 23, 1840 from Major Jack Downing to …
Year:
1840
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Van Buren, Martin > 1782-1862
Elections > Maine
Political poetry
Wood-engraving, American > 19th century
Local ID:
HB12622
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

A broker there was in Providence town

Description:
Song concerning business and drinking mentions Old John Brown, Tommy Davis, Seth, George, Amos and Watson; reference to "mods:state Auditors Punch" may be political.
Year:
1860
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Davis, Thomas > 1806-1895 > Poetry
Brown, John > 1800-1859 > Poetry
Padelford, Seth > 1807-1878 > Poetry
Barstow, Amos Chafee > 1813-1894 > Poetry
Political poetry
Drinking of alcoholic beverages > Poetry
United States > Rhode Island > Providence
Local ID:
HB20035 RI
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

The bureaucrats' song: In congress and out

Description:
  • Line border at head and end of text.
  • First line: They have no right to the money they've earned.
Year:
1932
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Political poetry
Local ID:
HB9318
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

The Butler campaign

Description:
  • To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee.
  • Within double line border.
  • Campaign song for Butler's victorious contest against R.H. Dana for Congressional seat in …
Year:
1868
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Dana, Richard Henry > 1815-1882 > Poetry
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) > 1818-1893 > Poetry
Campaign literature, 1868 > Democratic > Massachusetts
Political poetry
Massachusetts > Politics and government > 1865-1950 > Poetry
Local ID:
HB4235 MA
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

The Butler campaign

Description:
  • To be sung to the tune: Bonnie Dundee.
  • Within border of type ornaments.
  • Campaign song for Butler as a candidate in Massachusetts; he ran several …
Year:
1871
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) > 1818-1893 > Poetry
Campaign literature > Democratic > Massachusetts
Political poetry
Massachusetts > Politics and government > 1865-1950 > Poetry
Local ID:
HB4235 MA
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Canto libre: for Victor Jara, Chilean folksinger

Description:
  • First line same as title.
  • Type-signed at end of poem: Bob Doerr. Four Directions Press, 1975.
  • Poem in English with some Spanish phrases.
Year:
1975
Contributor:
Doerr, Bob, 1944- (creator)
Jara, Víctor, 1938-1973 (dedicatee)
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Jara, Víctor > 1938-1973 > Poetry
Political poetry
Death in poetry
Chile > Politics and government > 1973-1988 > Poetry
Local ID:
HB37231
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Carrier's address to the patrons of the Haverhill Gazette: on the commencement of the year 1837

Description:
  • Poetry.
  • Printed in two columns divided by line of type ornaments within triple border of type ornaments.
  • At end of poem: On the road, January …
Year:
1837
Contributor:
Spofford, Jeremiah (creator)
Harris, John H (Publisher)
Subject:
Political poetry
New Year's greetings
United States > Massachusetts > Haverhill
Local ID:
HB36416
Collection:
Brown University Library
Carriers' Addresses
Full Record

Chamberlain, Kitchener, Kropotkine—and the political Pessoa

Description:
Though Fernando Pessoa is not widely known as a political poet, we may be familiar with the political commentary explicit in some of his works. …
Year:
2016
Contributor:
Pittella, Carlos (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Pessoa, Fernando > 1888-1935
Political poetry
Sonnets, English
Chamberlain, Joseph > 1836-1914
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener > Earl > 1850-1916
Kropotkin, Peter Alekseevich > kniaz > 1842-1921
Hobhouse, Emily > 1860-1926
South African War, 1899-1902
Anarchism
Poesia política
Sonetos ingleses
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Journals@BDR
Pessoa Plural—A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies
Full Record

Chance's lament

Year:
1800
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Political poetry
Local ID:
HB18364
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Come on Ike and blow your horn

Description:
  • Printed in black on heavy mustard-colored paper.
  • At left of text cut of golfer; at right of text cuts of fisherman and sunbather.
  • Includes three …
Year:
1953
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969) > Poetry
Political poetry
Presidents > United States > Poetry
United States > Oklahoma > Caddo
Local ID:
HB17411
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

The death of Washington: with some remarks on Jeffersonian & Madisonian policy

Description:
  • Printed in two columns; cuts of tree at left and seated woman at right at head of text flanking title.
  • At end of text: Fire …
Year:
1813
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Washington, George > 1732-1799 > Poetry > Memorial poems
Jefferson, Thomas > 1743-1826 > Poetry
Madison, James > 1751-1836 > Poetry
Death in poetry
Political poetry
Wood-engraving, American > 19th century
United States > Foreign relations > 1783-1815 > Poetry
Local ID:
HB14112
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Debate in the board of common council, November 27, 1834, on the proposition of Mr. McIntire to surrender the charter

Description:
  • Taken down in short hand, by an amateur reporter.
  • Printed in two columns divided by single line.
  • At end of text: Vive la bagatelle.
Year:
1834
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Political poetry
Political satire
Local ID:
HB1614
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

Dedicated to the honest man: Knight of Labor, soldier or sailor, and the thinking citizen at the ballot box! North and South, East and West, ex-fed, or confed

Description:
  • Poetry and prose.
  • Broadsheet; printed in two columns.
  • First verse to be sung to the tune: Heathen Chinee.
  • At head of first column on recto …
Year:
1902
Genre:
broadsides
Subject:
Roosevelt, Theodore > 1858-1919
Knights of Labor > Political activity
United States. > Navy.
United States. > Army.
Political poetry
Presidents > United States > Election > 1904
Campaign literature > United States
Local ID:
HB11650 DC
Collection:
Brown University Library
Harris Broadsides
Full Record

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