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Poems, [ca. 1725]-1771

  • "Ad C: Favonium Aristium"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt01
    • Uniform Title: "Ad C: Favonium Aristium" [e-text]
    • First Line: Barbaras aedes aditure mecum,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 138-140 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 306-308 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Cambridge when Gray was about to join Richard West (Favonius) at the Inner Temple, where they intended to study law together. First published, untitled but referred to in a footnote as a "Sapphic Ode", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section I, letter no. XIV. Mason is the only source for this letter, dated June 1738, in which Gray originally sent the poem to West. MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0001 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ad C: Favonium Aristium"
      • Date: June 1738
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 53, 90, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 1, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 21; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 136
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, annotated "Cambridge. June, 1738" in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, split over two pages: p. 53 (ll. 1-40) and p. 90 (ll. 41-52).


  • "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt02
    • Uniform Title: "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum" [e-text]
    • First Line: Mater rosarum, cui tenerae vigent
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 144-145 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 310-312 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Rome in the Spring of 1740 while on the Grand Tour with Horace Walpole. First published, untitled but referred to in a footnote as "Ad C. Favonium Zephyrinum", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section II, letter no. XXI. Mason is the only source for this letter, dated May 1740, in which Gray originally sent the poem to West (Favonius). MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0003 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum"
      • Date: Spring 1740
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 128, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 2, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 138
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, annotated "Wrote at Rome, the latter end of the Spring, 1740. after a journey to Frescati & the Cascades of Tivoli", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 128.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0004 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Alcaïca"
      • Date: May 1740
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 107, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 3, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Alcaïca", endorsed in an unidentified hand "by T. Gray, from Tivoli".


  • "[Alcaic Fragment]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt03
    • Uniform Title: "[Alcaic Fragment]" [e-text]
    • First Line: O lachrymarum Fons, tenero sacros
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 140-141 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 308 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Cambridge when Gray was about to join Richard West at the Inner Temple, where they intended to study law together. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section I, letter no. XIV. Mason is the only source for this letter, dated June 1738, in which Gray originally sent the poem to West.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0007 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1738?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 90, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 5, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 21; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 137
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled but identified in the index at the end as "Tears, (Latin Alcaïc) fragment on them", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 90.


  • "[Alcaic Ode]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt04
    • Uniform Title: "[Alcaic Ode]" [e-text]
    • First Line: O Tu, severi relligio loci,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 151-152 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 317-318 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Gray wrote this poem in the album of the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse on this second visit on 21 August 1741, during his journey from Turin to Lyon, when he was returning alone from the Grand Tour. First published, as "Ode", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 117-118. MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0008 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "In the Book at the Grande Chartreuse among the Mountains of Dauphiné"
      • Date: August 1741
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 129, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 6, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "In the Book at the Grande Chartreuse among the Mountains of Dauphiné", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 129.


  • [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment]

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0012 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Essay 1st"
      • Date: [1749?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. II, 619-620, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 9, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 27; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 144
      • Contents: Autograph, headed "Essay 1st", with numbered lines (5, 10, etc.), followed by a quotation in Greek from Theocritus in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. II, 619-620.


  • "The Bard. A Pindaric Ode"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0018 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1757?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, partial [argument]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. II, 932v, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 14, 80; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 29; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 208
      • Contents: Autograph argument of the ode, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. II, 932v. First printed in Mason's Poems (1775), 91.


  • De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Primus. Ad Favonium.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0031 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Primus: Ad Favonium
      • Date: 1740
      • Physical Description: 4 pages; autograph, revised
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 129, 138, 289, 438, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 23, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22, 23, 25, 26; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 128
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, with line numbers (10, 20, etc.) and marginal notes, unfinished, annotated "Begun at Florence in 1740", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, split over four pages: p. 129 (ll. 1-27), 138 (ll. 28-79), 289 (ll. 80-151), and p. 438 (ll. 152-207). In the index to the Commonplace Book, the poem is listed as "Thinking (the Principles of) a Latin Poem, unfinish'd".


  • De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0033 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Liber Secundus. De Principiis Cogitandi"
      • Date: 1742
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy, revised, partial
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 286, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 25, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, here entitled "Liber Secundus. De Principiis Cogitandi", unfinished, annotated "Begun at Stoke, June, 1742", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol I, 286.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0034 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: 1747
      • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 44, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 26, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 131, vol. i, 264-268 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled and referred to as "the Beginning of the fourth Book" of "a large Design", in a letter to Horace Walpole, [8 February 1747].


  • "[The Death of Hoel]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.deho
    • Uniform Title: "[The Death of Hoel]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Had I but the torrent's might,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 69-70; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 233-235
    • Summary: Written at London in 1760 or 1761. First published, entitled "Ode XI. The Death of Hoel", in Mason's Poems (1775), 58-59.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0035 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1761?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1070, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 27, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled but headed "From Aneurin, Monarch of the Bards, extracted from the Gododin", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1070.


  • "The Descent of Odin"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.dooo
    • Uniform Title: "The Descent of Odin" [e-text]
    • First Line: Uprose the King of Men with speed,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1768
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 32-34; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 220-228
    • Summary: Written at London in 1761, the paraphrase of the original Icelandic is based largely on a Latin translation from Bartholinus. First published in Poems (1768).

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0038 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: 1761
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1069-1070, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 30, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 147
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here beginning "Up rose the King...", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1069-1070. The Latin text of Vegtams Kvitha from Bartholinus is on p. 1043.


  • "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0045 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Elegy, written in a Country-Church Yard. 1750"
      • Date: 1750
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph, revised
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. II, 617-618, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one. Full facsimile published in A facsimile of the original autograph manuscript of Gray's Elegy. Photographed by Messrs. Cundall, Downes & Co. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co. 1862, other facsimiles include Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. I, following p. [64], Poole (ed.), Poetical Works (1917), 90-91, and Folger Shakespeare Library, ART Vol. a9, follows p. 50.
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 34, 82; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 27; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), additional stanza, 42n; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 144; Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1994; Elegy (1976)
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, here entitled "Elegy, written in a Country-Church Yard. 1750" and reading "Curfeu", with numbered lines (10, 20, etc.), an additional quatrain, the "Redbreast stanza", annotated "Insert" after l. 116 and "Omitted in 1753", and an extensive prose note, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. II, 617-618.


  • "[Epitaph on Sir William Williams]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.epww
    • Uniform Title: "[Epitaph on Sir William Williams]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Here, foremost in the dangerous paths of fame,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 104-105; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 238-240
    • Summary: Written between May and August 1761 at the request of one of the executors of Sir William Williams, a politician and soldier Gray briefly met early in October 1760, who died 27 April 1761 on an expedition against Belle Ile. First published, as "Epitaph II. On Sir William Williams", in Mason's Poems (1775), 62.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0060 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Epitaph on Sr W J Williams"
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1108, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 46, 83; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 105, for variants and rejected stanza
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, here entitled "Epitaph on Sr W J Williams" with two variants of l. 12 in "Variations" and a "Rejected Stanza", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1108.


  • "[Farewell to Florence]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt08
    • Uniform Title: "[Farewell to Florence]" [e-text]
    • First Line: . . . oh Faesulae, amoena
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 149-150 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 315 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Florence not later than 21 April 1741 and introduced "Eleven months, at different times, have I passed at Florence; and yet (God help me) know not either people or language. Yet the place and the charming prospects demand a poetical farewell, and here it is." Shortly before leaving Florence, Gray sent it in a letter of that date to Richard West. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 115.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0062 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: 1741
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 139, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 48, 83; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.


  • "The Fatal Sisters"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.fsio
    • Uniform Title: "The Fatal Sisters" [e-text]
    • First Line: Now the storm begins to lower,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1768
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 27-31; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 210-220
    • Summary: Written at London not later than the beginning of May 1761, based largely on a Latin translation of the original poem preserved in the late 13th-century Njáls Saga, ch. 157. This untitled Old Norse poem is a prophetic account of the Battle of Clontarf, fought on Good Friday 1014. First published in Poems (1768).

    3 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0066 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "The Song of the Valkyries"
      • Date: 1761
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy, revised
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1067-1068, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 52, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 147
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, under the heading "Carmina", here entitled "The Song of the Valkyries" and headed "(see above P: Art: Gothi)", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1067-1068.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0067 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1761?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph draft, partial [preface only]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1041, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 53, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 147
      • Contents: Autograph draft of the "Preface", here untitled but under the heading "Gothi", beginning "About the year 1029 Sigurd, Earl of the Orkney-Islands...", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1041.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0068 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1761?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph draft, partial [note only]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1044, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 54, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 28n; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 216
      • Contents: Autograph draft of the note on the Valkyries under the heading "Gothi" in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1044.


  • "From Petrarch. Lib: I: Sonett: 170"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt09
    • Uniform Title: "From Petrarch. Lib: I: Sonett: 170" [e-text]
    • First Line: Uror io! veros at nemo credidit ignes:
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1814
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 141-142 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 308-309 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written probably in 1737 or 1738 when Gray was translating other Italian verse by Tasso and Dante. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 93.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0070 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "From Petrarch. Lib: I: Sonett: 170"
      • Date: [1738?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 139, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 56, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.


  • "[The Gaurus]"

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0071 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: July 1740
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 115, 128, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 57, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 138
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, under the heading "Carmina" and annotated "Rome -- July, 1740 just return'd from Naples", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, split over two pages: p. 115 (ll. 1-52) and p. 128 (ll. 53-61).

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0072 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: June 1740
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 108, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 58, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, annotated in an unidentified hand "A Fragment in the Stile of Virgil, by T. Gray from Naples".


  • "[Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.hyig
    • Uniform Title: "[Hymn to Ignorance. A Fragment]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Hail, horrors, hail! ye ever-gloomy bowers,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 73-74; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 74-77
    • Summary: Written between March and October 1742 after Gray's arrival in England from the Grand Tour and before his return to Peterhouse, Cambridge. First published, untitled but referred to as a "Hymn or Address to Ignorance", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 176-177.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0075 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Fragment of an address or Hymn to Ignorance"
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 3 pages; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1103-1105, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 61, 85; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, here entitled "Fragment of an address or Hymn to Ignorance", annotated "...about the year 1743", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1103-1105.


  • "Imitated [from Buondelmonte]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt14
    • Uniform Title: "Imitated [from Buondelmonte]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Lusit amicitiae interdum velatus amictu,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 150 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 316 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Florence in the autumn of 1740 and sent in a letter, dated 21 April 1741, to Richard West. First published, untitled, with the original Italian poem in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 115.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0076 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Imitated"
      • Date: 1741
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 139, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 62, 85; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "Imitated", together with a copy of the Italian original "Spesso Amor sotto la forma", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.


  • "[Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1."

    • Archive Work ID: poems.imp2
    • Uniform Title: "[Imitated] From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1." [e-text]
    • First Line: You ask why thus my loves I still rehearse,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1814
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 64-67; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 44-47
    • Summary: Probably written in April of 1742 and sent in a letter to Richard West, [23 April 1742]. First published, except ll. 1-30, in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 87-89, published in full in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 153.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0078 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1. To Mecaenas"
      • Date: April 1742
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 254-255, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 64, 85; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 24
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, under the heading "Carmina", here entitled "From Propertius. Lib: 2: Eleg: 1. To Mecaenas", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 254-255.


  • "Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.imp3
    • Uniform Title: "Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:" [e-text]
    • First Line: Love, gentle power, to peace was e'er a friend:
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1814
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 67-69; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 25-27
    • Summary: 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.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0080 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Imitated from Propertius, Lib: 3: Eleg: 5:"
      • Date: December 1738
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 96-97, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 66, 85; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 137
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 96-97.


  • "In D[iem]: 29am Maii"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt15
    • Uniform Title: "In D[iem]: 29am Maii" [e-text]
    • First Line: Bella per Angliacos plusquam civilia campos
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 125-127 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 296-297 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Composed as an undergraduate exercise at Cambridge, possibly in 1735. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 166.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0087 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "In D[iem]: 29am Maii"
      • Date: [1735?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS L.C. II.86, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 73, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 32; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy signed "Gray".


  • "In 5tam Novembris"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt16
    • Uniform Title: "In 5tam Novembris" [e-text]
    • First Line: Lis anceps, multosque diu protracta per annos,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 127-129 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 297-299 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Composed as an undergraduate exercise at Cambridge, possibly in 1735. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 167.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0086 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "In 5tam Novembris"
      • Date: [1735?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS L.C. II.86, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 72, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 32; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy signed "Gray".


  • "Inscription for a Wood in a Park"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.inaw
    • Uniform Title: "Inscription for a Wood in a Park" [e-text]
    • First Line: Ἁζόμενος πολύθηρον ἑκηβόλου ἄλσος Ἀνάσσας,
    • Language: Greek
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 189 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 345 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written in May 1742. First published, untitled but introduced as "an inscription for a wood joining to a park of mine", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section III, letter X. Mason is the only source for this (probably conflated) letter, dated [27 May 1742], in which Gray originally sent the poem to Richard West.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0088 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Inscription for a Wood in a Park"
      • Date: May 1742
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Greek
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 278, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 74, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 24
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 278.


  • "[Latin verses at Eton]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt18
    • Uniform Title: "[Latin verses at Eton]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Pendet Homo incertus gemini ad confinia mundi
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1882 and 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 117-121 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 290-293 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Composed as a school exercise at Eton between February 1733 and September 1734. First published, in part and untitled, in Gosse, Gray (1882), 6-7, published in full in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 163 as "Play Exercise at Eton".

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0093 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between February 1733 and September 1734]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 50-51, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 78, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 21; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 136
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled but under the heading "Carmina", annotated by Gray "Play-Exercise at Eton" and listed in the index at the end as "Knowledge of Himself, Latin Verses at Eton", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 50-51.


  • "[Lines Written at Burnham]"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0096 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [August 1736]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 24, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 81, 87; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 32; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 26, vol. i, 46-49 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, in a letter to Horace Walpole, [August 1736].


  • "[Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0095 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [8 December 1734]
      • Physical Description: 3 pages; autograph
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 5, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 80, 87; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 32; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 4, vol. i, 9-11 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph, here untitled, in a letter to Horace Walpole, [8 December 1734].


  • "A Long Story"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0098 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "A Long Story"
      • Date: August 1750
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. II, 651-652, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 83, 87; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 28; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 144
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here beginning "In Britain's Isle (no matter where)", with marginal side notes, dated "Aug: 1750" and annotated "Printed in 1753 with Mr Bentley's Designs, & repeated in a 2d Edition", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. II, 651-652.


  • "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0104 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode. on a distant Prospect of Windsor, & the adjacent Country"
      • Date: August 1742
      • Physical Description: 3 pages; autograph fair copy, revised
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 278-279, 284, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 89, 87; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 24-25; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, here entitled "Ode. on a distant Prospect of Windsor, & the adjacent Country" and dated "at Stoke Aug: 1742", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol I, 278-279 and continued on p. 284.


  • "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0108 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "On the Death of Selima, a Favourite Cat, who fell into a China-Tub with Gold-fishes in it, & was drown'd"
      • Date: 1747
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 381, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 92, 88; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 26; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 142
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "On the Death of Selima, a Favourite Cat, who fell into a China-Tub with Gold-fishes in it, & was drown'd", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 381.


  • "[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.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0113 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Fragment of an Ode found amongst Mr. Grays papers after his decease and here transcribed from the corrected Copy"
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 4 pages; transcript in the hand of William Mason, partial [wanting ll. 17-20]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1097-1100, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 95, 88; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30; Clark (ed.), Ode on Vicissitude (1933), discussion of Mason's transcript and facsimile of 1774 pamphlet
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, headed "Fragment of an Ode found amongst Mr. Grays papers after his decease and here transcribed from the corrected Copy", wanting ll. 17-20 and accompanied by a list of "Variations in the first copy", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1097-1100. Ll. 21-24 and 69-96 were composed by Mason.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0114 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason, partial [ll. 17-20]
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1110, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 96, 88; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 247, notes; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 201, notes
      • Contents: Transcript of ll. 17-20 in the hand of William Mason, within the "Extract from Mr Gray's Pocket Books... 1754", which also contains notes arguably related to the poem, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1110.


  • "Ode on the Spring"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.oots
    • Uniform Title: "Ode on the Spring" [e-text]
    • First Line: Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1748
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 3-4; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 47-53
    • Summary: Written at Stoke Poges early in June 1742 and sent in a letter, [c. 3 June 1742], to Richard West who was then dead. The letter was returned unopened and does not survive. First published, anonymously, in Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 3 vols, vol. II. (London, 1748), 265-267, reprinted in 6 vols, vol. II. (London, 1758 and later edns.), 325-327.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0118 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Noon-Tide, An Ode"
      • Date: beginning of June 1742
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 275, 278, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 99, 89; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 24
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Noon-Tide, An Ode", and beginning "Lo, where the rosie-bosom'd Hours", annotated "at Stoke, the beginning of June, 1742. sent to Fav: not knowing he was then Dead", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 275 and continued on p. 278.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0119 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: 20 October [1746]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 42, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 100, 89; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 125, vol. i, 249-252 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, in a letter to Horace Walpole, 20 October [1746].


  • "Ode to Adversity"

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0122 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode. To Adversity"
      • Date: August 1742
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 284-285, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 103, 89; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, here entitled "Ode. To Adversity" and annotated "at Stoke, Aug. 1742", including two mottoes in Greek from Aeschylus, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 284-285.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0123 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Hymn to Adversity"
      • Date: 8 September [1751]
      • Physical Description: [2?] pages; autograph fair copy, crossed out
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 52, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 104, 89; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 161, vol. i, 346-350 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Hymn to Adversity" (crossed out), in a letter to Horace Walpole, 8 September [1751].


  • "[Oh ubi colles]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt20
    • Uniform Title: "[Oh ubi colles]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Oh ubi colles, ubi Faesularum,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 152 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 318 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written probably at London soon after returning from the Grand Tour, in [September] 1741. First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 296.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0126 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1741?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, revised
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 381, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 107, 89; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 26
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 381.


  • "The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0138 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode, in the Greek manner"
      • Date: [1754?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph, revised
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. II, 727-728, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 114, 90; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 28; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 145
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, here entitled "Ode, in the Greek manner", the first line altered from "Awake my Lyre, my Glory, wake" to the first line as published, including an alternative version of five of the last six lines, and annotated "Finish'd in 1754. printed together with the Bard, an Ode. Aug: 8. 1757", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. II, 727-728.


  • "[Sketch of his Own Character]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.skoc
    • Uniform Title: "[Sketch of his Own Character]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Too poor for a bribe and too proud to importune,
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 77; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 236-238
    • Summary: Written in 1761, not earlier than April. First published, untitled, in a note in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 264.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0147 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1111, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 122, 91; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 31
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1111.


  • "Song I"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.sng1
    • Uniform Title: "Song I" [e-text]
    • First Line: 'Midst beauty and pleasure's gay triumphs, to languish
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1797
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 99; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 240-241
    • Summary: Written before October 1761 at the request of Gray's friend Henrietta Speed. Walpole transcribed and sent it in a letter to Caroline Campbell, Countess of Ailesbury, 28 November 1761. First published, beginning "With beauty, with pleasure surrounded, to languish", in Pope's Works (1797), ed. Joseph Warton, vol. II, 285n. Entitled "Amatory Lines" by Mitford and Northup, Bibliography (1917), 61.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0148 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Song"
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1105, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 123, 91; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, here entitled "Song" and annotated "From an interlind & corrected Copy", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1105.


  • "Song II"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.sng2
    • Uniform Title: "Song II" [e-text]
    • First Line: Thyrsis, when we parted, swore
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1791
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 99-100; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 242-243
    • Summary: Written in October 1761 at the request of Gray's friend Henrietta Speed. First published in The European Magazine 19 (February 1791), 152.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0155 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Song"
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1106, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 128, 91; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, here entitled "Song", together with a list of variants entitled "First Expressions", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1106.


  • "Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0160 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Sonnet"
      • Date: August 1742
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 284, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one, facsimile in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. iv, frontispiece
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 133, 92; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Sonnet" and annotated "at Stoke, Aug: 1742", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol I, 284. It is listed as "West (Richard) Sonnet, on him" in Gray's index to vol II.


  • "Stanzas to Mr Bentley"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0162 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [?]
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript, in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1107, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 134, 92; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, wanting the ends of ll. 26-28, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1107.


  • "[Tophet]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.tapr
    • Uniform Title: "[Tophet]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Such Tophet was; so looked the grinning fiend
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1769 (pr. 1783)
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 75; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 100-103
    • Summary: Written c. 1749 under a sketch of the Rev. Henry Etough drawn by William Mason. First published, ll. 1-2, 5-8, as On Mr. E---'s being ordained and beginning "Such Tophet was--so grum'd the bawling Fiend", in The London Magazine 52 (June 1783), 296. The text, ll. 1-2, 5-8, was also issued on an etching by Michael Tyson of the drawing of Tophet by Mason, 1769.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0163 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Inscription on a portrait"
      • Date: [after 1771]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1106, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 136, 92; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Transcript of ll. 1-2, 5-8, 3-4 in the hand of William Mason, here entitled "Inscription on a portrait", with ll. 3-4 annotated "addition in the first Copy", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1106.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0164 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [?]
      • Date: 26 November 1769
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Cole
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS L.C. II.85, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 137, 92; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 31; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Cole, ll. 1-2, 5-8 beginning "Such Tophet was--so grinn'd the bawling Fiend", on an early state of Tyson's etching (before the text had been added), annotated by Cole on the recto "Mr. Etough, Rector of Therfeild in Hartfordshire, who had been a dissenting Teacher in a Barn at Debden at Essex, died in August 1757" and on the verso "Donum Mich Tyson Arm: & Collegii Corporis Chri Cantabr Socij Nov: 26.1769, Gulielmo Cole A: Mro".


  • "[Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.tra9
    • Uniform Title: "[Translation from Statius, Thebaid IX 319-26]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Crenaeus, whom the nymph Ismenis bore
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1915
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 57-58; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 277
    • Summary: Written probably as a school exercise at Eton between 1725 and 1734, possibly Gray's earliest composition in English. First published in Toynbee (ed.), Correspondence (1915), vol. ii, 299-300 with a facsimile.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0169 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between 1725 and 1734]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph draft, partial [ll. 1-13]
      • Language: English
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 106, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two. Facsimile in Toynbee (ed.), Correspondence (1915), vol. ii, following p. 298
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 141, 93; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 57n
      • Contents: Autograph draft of ll. 1-13, here untitled, together with MS 0170.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0170 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between 1725 and 1734]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy, ll. 14-16 revised
      • Language: English, Latin
      • Location: MS L.C. II.90, No. 106, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 142, 93; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33
      • Contents: Autograph (ll. 1-13 fair copy, ll. 14-16 revised), here untitled, including a transcript of the Latin original between ll. 13 and 14, annotated in the hand of Horace Walpole "This written when he was very young", together with MS 0169.


  • "[Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9."

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0171 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "From Tasso. Canto, 14, Stanza, 32"
      • Date: 1738
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy, revised
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 95-96, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 143, 93; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 137
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, translation from Gerusalemme Liberata, headed "From Tasso. Canto, 14, Stanza, 32" in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 95-96.


  • [Translations from the Greek Anthology]

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt25
    • Uniform Title: [Translations from the Greek Anthology] [e-text]
    • First Line: Fertur Aristophanis fatorum arcana rogatum, [etc.]
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1814 and 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 170-178 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 332-337 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Thirteen small pieces, subsumed under the work title [Translations from the Greek Anthology], presumably written late in Gray's Latin period, after his return from the Continent in 1742. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 94-97, except nos. [I] and [XII], first published in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 295. No. [VI] was first published as "Nymph offering a Statue of herself to Venus" and beginning "Te tibi, sancta, fero nudam; formosias, ipsa". First published complete and in Gray's order in Bradshaw (ed.), Poetical Works (1891), 168-172.

    13 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0177 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[I] From the Greek"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 149, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0178 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[II] From the Greek of Antiphilus Byzantius In Medeae Imaginem, Nobile Timomachi Opus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 150, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0179 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[III] Imitation of the Greek; of Paul Silentiarius. In Bacchae Furentis Statuam"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 151, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0180 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[IV] From the Greek, of Posidippus. In Alexandrum, AEre Effictum"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 152, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0181 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[V] From the Greek. [Anonymous.] In Niobes Statuam"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 153, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0182 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VI] From the Greek, of Lucian, offering a Statue of herself to Venus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, revised
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 154, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, the first line altered from "Te tibi, sancta, fero nudam: formosius ipsâ" in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0183 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VII] From the Greek of Statyllius Flaccus. In Amorem dormientem"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 155, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0184 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VIII] From a Fragment of Plato"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 156, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0185 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[IX] From the Greek of Marianus. In Fontem aquae calidae"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 157, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0186 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[X] From Lucillius"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 158, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0187 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XI] Imitated from the Greek of Posidippus. Ad Amorem"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 159, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0188 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XII] . . . . of Bassus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 160, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "...Of Bassus", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0189 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XIII] . . . . of Rufinus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 161, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "Of Rufinus...", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.


  • "The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment"

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0190 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "The Triumphs of Owen, a Fragment from the Welch"
      • Date: [1760 or 1761]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1068, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 162, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, with four lines at the end intended to follow l. 26, here entitled "The Triumphs of Owen, a Fragment from the Welch", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1068.


  • [Verse Fragments]

    • Archive Work ID: poems.vsfr
    • Uniform Title: [Verse Fragments] [e-text]
    • First Line: Gratitude
    • Language: English
    • First Published: 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 196; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 277-278
    • Summary: Written probably in 1754, copied by William Mason from Gray's pocketbook for that year. First published, among "Thoughts and Verse Fragments", in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 269-270.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0193 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1754]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of William Mason
      • Language: English
      • Location: Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1110, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 165, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of William Mason, 12 lines beginning "Gratitude/ The Joy that trembles in her eye", within the "Extract from Mr Gray's Pocket Books... 1754", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1110.


Contents

  • Collection: Poems, [ca. 1725]-1771
  • Location: Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Works: 45
  • Manuscripts: 67

Works