grayt.ead.0001-mss.0080Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0080#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.imp3Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg:
5:Love, gentle power, to peace was e'er a friend:1814Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 67-69Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 25-27
Written at London in
December 1738.
First published, except ll. 1-4 and 57-58, as
Propertius. Lib.3.Eleg.4 in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II,
85-86, ll. 1-4 first published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 151.
mss.0080poems.imp3Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg:
5:December 17382autograph fair copy
GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I,
96-97 College Library PBCC
Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999),
reel one
Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 66, 85Poetic C.
B., Pembroke College (1999), 22Martin, Chronologie (1931), 137