"[Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.oopv
• Uniform Title: "[Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude]" [e-text]
• First Line: Now the golden Morn aloft
• Language: English
• First Published: 1775
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 100-103; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 201-207
• Summary: Written probably in 1754 or 1755. First printed privately in 1774. First published, in two versions, among the notes to the poems, entitled "Ode, On the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude", and as "Ode" in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 78-81 (with Mason's additions) and 236-237 (ll. 1-48 only) respectively.

1 Manuscript:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0112 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [?]
  • Date: [?]
  • Physical Description: [?] pages; transcript in an unidentified hand
  • Language: English
  • Location: [privately owned]
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 88
  • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, owned (1969) by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.