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]

  • Archive Work ID: poems.aleg
  • Uniform Title: [The Alliance of Education and Government. A Fragment] [e-text]
  • First Line: As sickly plants betray a niggard earth,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1775
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 93-97; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 85-100
  • Summary: Written in 1748-49 and probably abandoned by March 1749. Gray sent ll. 1-57 of the fragment in a letter, dated 19 August 1748, to Thomas Wharton. First published, entitled "Essay I", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 193-200.

  2 Manuscripts:

  • • 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.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0010 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 19 August [1748]
    • Physical Description: 2 pages, 238 mm x 180 mm; autograph fair copy, partial [ll. 1-57] and revised
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), ff. 29v-30r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 7, 79; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 146, vol. i, 308-312 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, of ll. 1-57, here untitled, followed by MS 0011, in a letter to Thomas Wharton, 19 August [1748]. Beneath the poem is written "I desire your Judgement upon so far, before I proceed any farther", and "Pray shew it to no one (as it is a Fragment) except it be St:^r who has seen most of it already, I think".
    
    
  
  

• "The Bard. A Pindaric Ode"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.bapo
  • Uniform Title: "The Bard. A Pindaric Ode" [e-text]
  • First Line: 'Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1757
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 18-24; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 177-200
  • Summary: Begun late in 1754 and initially abandoned by August 1755, then taken up again, completed and revised, between May and August 1757. Gray sent the earlier parts of the poem in letters to Thomas Wharton, dated 6 August 1755 (ll. 1-56), and to Richard Stonhewer, dated 21 August 1755 (ll. 63-100), the latter part (ll. 111-144) to William Mason, dated [24 or 31] May 1757. First published, as "Ode II." in Odes by Mr. Gray (1757), 12-21.

  9 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0014 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: Bard
    • Date: 21 August 1755
    • Physical Description: 1 page, 204 mm x 160 mm; autograph, partial [2 lines]
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 73v, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 10, 80; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 205, vol. i, 433-434 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph proposal of a revision of ll. 17-18, here beginning, "With fury pale, & pale with woe," in a letter to Thomas Wharton, 21 August 1755.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0015 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 27 August 1756
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, partial [ll. 23-56]
    • Language: English
    • Location: HM 21912, Department of Manuscripts, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, USA <https://www.huntington.org/library-collections>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 11, 80; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 222, vol. ii, 474-478 (subscription required)
    • Contents: Autograph, of ll. 23-56, here untitled but referred to as "the British Ode", in a letter to Edward Bedingfield, 27 August 1756.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0016 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [beginning of June 1757]
    • Physical Description: 4 pages, 226 mm x 187 mm; autograph draft, partial [ll. 57-144]
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), ff. 75-76, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 12, 80; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 205A, vol. i, 434-437 (subscription required); Starr, "Gray's Craftsmanship" (1946), particularly pp. 424-429
    • Contents: Autograph draft, of ll. 57-144, here untitled, following a letter to Thomas Wharton, 21 August 1755, but according to Correspondence of Thomas Gray (1971), vol. i, 434 very probably written at the beginning of June 1757.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0017 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [24 or 31] May 1757
    • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph fair copy, partial [ll. 111-144]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 13, 80; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 238, vol. ii, 501-503 (subscription required); Starr, "Gray's Craftsmanship" (1946), particularly pp. 424-429
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, of ll. 111-144, untitled but headed "Antist: 3^a." and beginning "Haughty Knights, & Barons bold", in a letter to William Mason, [24 or 31] May 1757.
    
    
  • • 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.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0019 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1757?]
    • Physical Description: [9?] pages; autograph, revised and partial [notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Bound PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 15, 80; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 788(?), 20, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), 45, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 241, 73; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 13
    • Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, revised, in Gray's copy of Odes by Mr. Gray (1757). The notes were first published in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0020 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 2 pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, f. 4, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 16, 80
    • Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 6. and identified on f. 3r as "6. The Bard, a Pindaric Ode", beginning "Prefix the original advertisement, The following Ode is founded &c:", in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768 London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0021 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [2?] pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 17, 80; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, headed "Prefix the origl. advertisement, The following Ode is founded, &c:", in MS instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0022 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Gazetta Litteraire de l'Europe. 1764. Tom: 3. p: 259"
    • Date: 1764
    • Physical Description: 3 pages; autograph transcript
    • Language: French
    • Location: MS 351, College Library, Eton College, Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 18, 80; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 413; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 606, 10
    • Contents: Autograph transcript of a translation into French prose, headed "Gazetta Litteraire de l'Europe. 1764. Tom: 3. p: 259". The translation is unlikely to be Gray's.
    
    
  
  

• De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Primus. Ad Favonium.

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lt05
  • Uniform Title: De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Primus. Ad Favonium. [e-text]
  • First Line: Unde Animus scire incipiat: quibus inchoet orsa
  • Language: Latin
  • First Published: 1775
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 156-167 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 321-332 (with English prose translation)
  • Summary: Begun at Florence not earlier than 7 July 1740 and abandoned at Stoke Poges by June 1742. Shortly before leaving Florence, Gray sent ll. 1-53 in a letter, dated 21 April 1741, to Richard West (Favonius). First published in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 160-167.

  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.

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lt06
  • Uniform Title: De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. [e-text]
  • First Line: Hactenus haud segnis Naturae arcana retexi
  • Language: Latin
  • First Published: 1775
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 168-170 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 328, 332 (with English prose translation)
  • Summary: Begun at Stoke Poges in June 1742 and sent in a letter, dated [8 February 1747], to Horace Walpole. First published, as "Liber Quartus", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 168-169.

  3 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0032 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1747?]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph written in red crayon and pencil, revised, partial [34 lines], quarto
    • Language: Latin
    • Location: [unlocated]
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 24, 81; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53, 41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 230, 70; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53,] 9; Catalogue of a Sotheby Parke-Bernet sale (6 April 1982), lot 53; Bonhams sale (10 April 2013), lot 185 (with facsimile)
    • Contents: An autograph of 28 lines and 6 deleted lines, revised, of Book II of De Principiis Cogitandi written in red crayon and pencil (two lines), together with a note on human desires.
    
    
  • • 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).

  3 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0036 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Ode (from the Norse-tongue) in Bartholinus, de causis contemnendae mortis. Hafniae. 1689. 4to"
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 3 pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, ff. 5v-6v, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 28, 81; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=140501>
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Ode (from the Norse-tongue) in Bartholinus, de causis contemnendae mortis. Hafniae. 1689. 4to", followed by the first line of the original poem "Upreis Odinn allda gautr &c:", including explanatory notes, used as printer's copy for Poems (1768), in MS instructions to Dodsley, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0037 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [3?] pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • Alternate Form: Facsimile, showing the beginning (37 lines) of the autograph, on page six of the MS Instructions, the upper three-fourths of which are reproduced, in Smith (ed.), Index (1989), no. 5, following p. xvii, where it is described
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 29, 81; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph, untitled but numbered 8. and identified from the table of contents as "8. The Descent of Odin (from the Norse-tounge)", and headed "From Bartholinus, De causis contemnendae mortis. Hafniae. 1689. 4to. Upreis Odinn Allda gautr &c:", beginning "Up rose the King...", and including a note, in MS Instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  • • 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"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.elcc
  • Uniform Title: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" [e-text]
  • First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1751
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 37-43; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 103-141
  • Summary: Begun c. 1745 and completed early in June 1750 at Stoke Poges. Gray sent the poem in a letter to Horace Walpole dated 12 June 1750. First published, as "An Elegy wrote in a Country Church Yard" and printed by Dodsley, in 1751.

  5 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0043 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Stanza's wrote in a Country Church-Yard"
    • Date: [1749?]
    • Physical Description: 4 pages; autograph draft
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS 281A, College Library, Eton College, Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
    • Alternate Form: Several facsimiles, including P. J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols, (Oxford, 1969), Sherburn (ed.), Elegy (1951), and Elegy (1976), where the MS and its provenance are discussed
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 32, 82; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), additional lines in the "Eton MS", 40-41nn; Fukuhara/Bergen, Elegy (1933); Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1995; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 602, 9, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53, 40-41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 226, 69; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53,] 8-9
    • Contents: Autograph draft, here entitled "Stanza's wrote in a Country Church-Yard", and reading "Curfeu". This MS, sometimes called the "Eton MS" or "Fraser MS", contains five additional stanzas (four after l. 72, and the "Redbreast stanza" after l. 116), which were omitted in the first edition of 1751, in 1753, and in 1768.
    • Related Material: MSS 0210, 0211, and 0212.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0044 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Elegy, written in a Country-Churchyard"
    • Date: 18 December [1750]
    • Physical Description: 3 pages, 227 mm x 188 mm; autograph fair copy, faint
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), ff. 45-46r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • Alternate Form: Facsimiles include McDermott, Penn and Gray (1930), 14-16 and Fukuhara, Bibliographical Study (1933), plate II
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 33, 82; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 156, vol. i, 334-340 (subscription required); Elegy (1976); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1996; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (27 February 1950), lot 239, facsimile in catalogue
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, following a letter to Thomas Wharton, 18 December [1750].
    
    
  • • 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.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0046 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 1 page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, f. 7r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 35, 82
    • Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 10. and identified on f. 3r as "10. Elegy, written in a country-churchyard" in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768 London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768. The notes were first published in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0047 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [1?] page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 36, 82; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, in MS instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  
  

• "[Epitaph on a Child]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.epld
  • Uniform Title: "[Epitaph on a Child]" [e-text]
  • First Line: Here, freed from pain, secure from misery, lies
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1884
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 104; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 209-210
  • Summary: Written in mid-June 1758 at the request of Thomas Wharton to commemorate his eldest son Robin who died in April 1758. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. I, 126, from the transcript made by Alexander Dyce.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0049 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1758?]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: Bound PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 22, Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 37, 82; Jones, Thomas Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph Manuscripts", VI. 20(a) "epitaph on a child", 181; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 624(?), 11, Sotheby's sale (12 August 1847), lot 89, 27, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), 41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 228(?), 69; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 9; Nelson, Christine, "extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes". E-mail to the editor, 14 November 2006
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled but endorsed 'Epitaph on a Child' in an unidentified hand, bound into Gray's copy of Odes (1757).
    
    
  
  

• "[Epitaph on Mrs Clerke]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.epmc
  • Uniform Title: "[Epitaph on Mrs Clerke]" [e-text]
  • First Line: Lo! where this silent marble weeps,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1758 (pr. 1759)
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 52; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 207-209
  • Summary: Written not long before 31 January 1758 presumably at the request of John Clerke to commemorate his wife Jane who died 27 April 1757 aged 31. Inscribed on a mural tablet in St George's parish church, Beckenham, Kent, 1758. First published, as "An Epitaph copied from a Tomb-stone in a Country Church Yard", in The Gentleman's Magazine, October 1759.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0053 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 31 January 1758
    • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph
    • Language: English
    • Location: HM 21912, Department of Manuscripts, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, USA <https://www.huntington.org/library-collections>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 41, 83; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 266, vol. ii, 559-561 (subscription required)
    • Contents: Autograph of an 18-line version, here untitled and beginning "Lo! where this little Marble weeps" in a letter to Edward Bedingfield, 31 January 1758.
    
    
  
  

• "[Epitaph on Mrs Mason]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.epmm
  • Uniform Title: "[Epitaph on Mrs Mason]" [e-text]
  • First Line: Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die
  • Language: English
  • First Published: [1767] (pr. 1784)
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 105; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 255-256
  • Summary: Written between 27 March and 23 May 1767 for Mason's wife Mary who died on 27 March 1767 aged 28. Inscribed on a monument in Bristol Cathedral, [1767]. First published in The New Foundling Hospital for Wit (London, new edn. 1784), vi. 45. Transcripts of Mason's own epitaph on his wife beginning "Take, holy Earth, all that my soul holds dear", are at PwV 304 and 1010(ii), Portland Collection, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0055 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Epitaph"
    • Date: [1767?]
    • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph and autograph transcript
    • Language: English
    • Location: Hurd Library, Hartlebury Castle, Hartlebury, UK <https://www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk/museums/county-museum-hartlebury/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 43, 83; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 256
    • Contents: Autograph of Gray's four lines, preceding a transcript in Gray's hand of the 12 lines composed by Mason, the whole entitled "Epitaph", endorsed in the hand of Richard Hurd "Mr. Mason's Ep. on his wife in Mr. Gray's hand-writing", in the papers of Richard Hurd.
    
    
  
  

• "[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.0059 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: August 1761
    • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph
    • Language: English
    • Location: Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 45, 83; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 339, vol. ii, 745-746 (subscription required)
    • Contents: Autograph, here untitled, in a letter to William Mason, August 1761.
    
    
  
  

• "[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).

  6 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0063 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1761]
    • Physical Description: 3 pages, 203 mm x 159 mm; autograph fair copy, revised
    • Language: English
    • Location: MA 3390, Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
    • Alternate Form: Facsimile and description in Verlyn Klinkenborg et al., British Literary Manuscripts, Series I. From 800 to 1800 (New York, 1981), no. 99
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 49, 83-84; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 604, 9
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, here untitled but referred to in the preface as a "magic song", beginning "Now the storm begins to lour", with the preface and a prose epilogue beginning "Having finish'd their incantation they tore the web they had woven into twelve pieces...", endorsed in another hand on verso. Bound into a copy of Poems (1768), following p. 71.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0064 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Ode (from the Norse-tongue) in the Orcades of Thormodus Torfaeus. Hafniae. 1697. Fol: & also in Bartholinus"
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 3 pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, ff. 4v-5v, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 50, 84; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=136436>
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, numbered 7. and here entitled "Ode (from the Norse-tongue) in the Orcades of Thormodus Torfaeus. Hafniae. 1697. Fol: & also in Bartholinus", followed by the first line of the original poem "Vitt er orpit fyrir valfalli &c:", including "Advertisement", "Preface", and explanatory notes, used for printer's copy for Poems (1768), in MS instructions to Dodsley, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0065 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [3?] pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • Alternate Form: Facsimile, showing the last seven lines and the note, on page six of the MS Instructions, the upper three-fourths of which are reproduced, in Smith (ed.), Index (1989), no. 5, following p. xvii, where it is described
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 51, 84; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled but numbered 7. and identified from the table of contents as "7. The Fatal Sisters (from the Norse-tongue)", and headed "From the Orcades of Thormodus Torfaeus. Hafniae. 1697. Fol: Vitt er orpit Fyrir valfalli &c:", preceded by a "Prefix", followed by a note on the Valkyriur, and, elsewhere in the MS (p. 9) an advertisement and two notes, in MS Instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  • • 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]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lt10
  • Uniform Title: "[The Gaurus]" [e-text]
  • First Line: Nec procul infelix se tollit in aethera Gaurus,
  • Language: Latin
  • First Published: 1775
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 146-149 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 312-315 (with English prose translation)
  • Summary: Written at Rome in June or early July 1740 while on the Grand Tour with Horace Walpole, and sent from Florence in a letter to Richard West, dated [25 September 1740]. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section II, letter no. XXVII.

  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".
    
    
  
  

• "[Gratia magna]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lt11
  • Uniform Title: "[Gratia magna]" [e-text]
  • First Line: Gratia magna tuae fraudi quod Pectore, Nice
  • Language: Latin
  • First Published: 1890
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 134-137 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 303-306 (with English prose translation)
  • Summary: Written probably in 1737 or 1738 when Gray was corresponding and exchanging poetry with Richard West who was then at Christ Church, Oxford. First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 296-298.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0073 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1738?]
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
    • Language: Latin
    • Location: [unlocated]
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 59, 84; Starr/Hendrickson, "Supplementary Note on Thomas Gray's 'Gratia Magna'" (1967), 412
    • Contents: An unlocated autograph, formerly owned (1967) by collector Gordon N. Ray.
    
    
  
  

• "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.

  2 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0077 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Lib: 2: Eleg: 1: To Mecaenas"
    • Date: [23 April 1742]
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 63, 85; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 105, vol. i, 196-199 (subscription required); Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 613, 10, Sotheby's sale (12 August 1847), lot 87(?), 26, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 245, 74
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "Lib: 2: Eleg: 1: To Mecaenas", sent in a letter to Richard West, [23 April 1742].
    
    
  • • 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]: 29^am Maii"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lt15
  • Uniform Title: "In D[iem]: 29^am 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]: 29^am 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 5^tam Novembris"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lt16
  • Uniform Title: "In 5^tam 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 5^tam 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.
    
    
  
  

• "[Invitation to Mason]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.inma
  • Uniform Title: "[Invitation to Mason]" [e-text]
  • First Line: Prim Hurd attends your call and Palgrave proud,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1853
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 257-258
  • Summary: Written at Cambridge not later than 8 January 1768, when Gray sent it in a letter to William Mason. First published, untitled and beginning "Weddell attends your call...", in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason (1853), 412.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0090 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 8 January 1768
    • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph
    • Language: English
    • Location: Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 75, 86; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 461, vol. iii, 992-995 (subscription required)
    • Contents: Autograph, here untitled, in a letter to William Mason, 8 January 1768.
    
    
  
  

• "[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]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lobt
  • Uniform Title: "[Lines Written at Burnham]" [e-text]
  • First Line: And, as they bow their hoary tops, relate
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1775
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 83; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 20
  • Summary: Written at Burnham and sent in a letter to Horace Walpole, [August 1736]. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 24.

  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]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lojd
  • Uniform Title: "[Lines Spoken by the Ghost of John Dennis at the Devil Tavern]" [e-text]
  • First Line: From purling streams and the Elysian scene,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1915
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 71-72; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 13-17
  • Summary: Written at Cambridge by [8 December 1734] and sent in a letter of that date to Horace Walpole. First published, untitled, in Toynbee (ed.), Correspondence (1915), vol. i, 13-15, referred to as "A Journey in Hades" in Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1221a.

  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"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lost
  • Uniform Title: "A Long Story" [e-text]
  • First Line: In Britain's isle, no matter where,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1753
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 43-48; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 142-152
  • Summary: Written and revised at Stoke Poges between August and October 1750 when Gray was staying there with his aunt. First published in Dodsley's Designs (1753), [14].

  2 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0097 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "A Long Story"
    • Date: 1750
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph fair copy, corrected
    • Language: English
    • Location: Rare Books, Special Collections and Archives, John Work Garrett Library, Johns Hopkins University Libraries, Baltimore, MD, USA <https://www.library.jhu.edu/library-departments/special-collections/historic-collection-at-john-work-garrett-library/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 82, 87; Whibley, "Notes on Two Manuscripts" (1937), 55-57; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 605, 10, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53, 41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 227, 69; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53,] 9
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, corrected, wanting ll. 5-8, with marginal explanatory notes.
    
    
  • • 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 for Music"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.ocmu
  • Uniform Title: "Ode for Music" [e-text]
  • First Line: "Hence, avaunt, ('tis holy ground)
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1769
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 48-51; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 264-274
  • Summary: Written at Cambridge between 6 February and 20 April 1769 for the installation of the Duke of Grafton as Chancellor of the University, 1 July 1769. First published, anonymously, as Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge... (1769), a copy of the first edition with an autograph note is at the Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA.

  2 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0099 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Ode, for musick"
    • Date: [1769?]
    • Physical Description: 4 pages; autograph fair copy (unsigned)
    • Language: English
    • Location: Houghton b MS Eng 870, 52B, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
    • Alternate Form: Photocopy in RP2338, Manuscripts Collection, The British Library, London, UK
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 85, 87; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 603(?), 9; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36724>
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy (unsigned), here entitled "Ode, for musick", lot 125 in an unidentified sale.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0100 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Ode"
    • Date: [1769?]
    • Physical Description: 4 pages; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Unbound) Manuscripts, Box 7a, Folder 18, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 86, 87; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 603, 9; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (30 June 1984), lot 483, facsimile in catalogue; Rich, Margaret Sherry, "Please forward". E-mail to Mark Farrell, forwarded to the editor, 26 June 2006; Farrell, Mark, "Re: [Fwd: Please forward]". E-mail to the editor, 28 June 2006
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Ode". A hand-written, nineteenth-century saleroom ticket, which refers to the manuscript as "Lot 603", is stuck onto the last page with sealing wax.
    
    
  
  

• "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.odec
  • Uniform Title: "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" [e-text]
  • First Line: Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1747
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 7-10; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 54-63
  • Summary: Written at Stoke Poges c. August 1742 during one of Gray's most productive periods. First published, anonymously, as a folio pamphlet by Dodsley, 30 May 1747.

  4 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0103 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Ode, on a Prospect of Windsor, & the adjacent Country"
    • Date: 1743
    • Physical Description: 3 pages; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS 281B, College Library, Eton College, Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
    • Alternate Form: Facsimile in Illustrated London News 132 (20 June 1908), 896
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 88, 87; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Ode, on a Prospect of Windsor, & the adjacent Country, in 1743".
    
    
  • • 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.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0105 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 1 page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [motto and notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, f. 3r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 90, 88; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph of the motto and notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 3. and identified on f. 3r as "3. Ode, on a distant prospect of Eton-College", in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768 London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768. The notes were first published in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0106 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [1?] page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [motto and notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 91, 88; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph of the motto and notes to the poem in MS instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  
  

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

  • Archive Work ID: poems.odfc
  • Uniform Title: "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" [e-text]
  • First Line: 'Twas on a lofty vase's side,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1748
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 5-6; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 78-85
  • Summary: Written at Cambridge between 22 February and 1 March 1747 and sent in a letter of that date to Horace Walpole. Mason is the only source for this letter, the poem sent in it has not survived. First published in Dodsley's Collection of Poems by Several Hands, 3 vols, vol. II. (London, 1748), 267-269, reprinted in 6 vols, vol. II. (London, 1758 and later edns.), 328-330.

  3 Manuscripts:

  • • 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.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0109 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "On a favourite Cat, call'd Selima, that fell into a China Tub with Gold-Fishes in it & was drown'd."
    • Date: [17 March 1747]
    • Physical Description: 2 pages, 236 mm x 183 mm; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), ff. 19v-20r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 93, 88; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 135, vol. i, 272-279 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "On a favourite Cat, call'd Selima, that fell into a China Tub with Gold-Fishes in it & was drown'd.", in a letter to Thomas Wharton, [17 March 1747].
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0110 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "On the Death of a favourite Cat drown'd in a China-Tub of Gold-Fishes"
    • Date: [1757?]
    • Physical Description: 2 pages, 157 mm x 102 mm; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: MA 3389, Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
    • Alternate Form: Facsimile and description in Verlyn Klinkenborg et al., British Literary Manuscripts, Series I. From 800 to 1800 (New York, 1981), no. 98. Reserve photocopy (microfilm copy) in RP149, Manuscripts Collection, The British Library, London, UK
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 94, 88; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (18 July 1967), lot 537; Catalogue of a Christie's sale (A. A. Houghton sale, 14 June 1979), lot 234, with facsimile, plate 29
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "On the Death of a favourite Cat drown'd in a China-Tub of Gold-Fishes", annotated on verso in the hand of Carolina Pery "known to be Mr Gray's handwriting about the Year 1757".
    
    
  
  

• "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.

  6 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0116 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1742?]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, revised, partial [ll. 3-4]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Manuscript Collections, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 97, 88, written on a leaf of random notes, item GrT 206, 100; Jones, Thomas Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph Manuscripts", VI. 5, 178
    • Contents: Autograph fragment, revised, of ll. 3-4, here untitled and beginning "Disclosed the breathing flowers", on a leaf of random notes.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0117 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1742?]
    • Physical Description: [2?] pages; autograph draft written in ink and red pencil, partial [ll. 11-36, 43-50]
    • Language: English
    • Location: GEN MSS 310, Box 8, Folder 340, Chauncey Brewster Tinker Manuscripts Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 98, 88-89, on same leaf as item GrT 215, 101
    • Contents: Autograph draft fragment, ll. 11-20 (in ink, second half of each line only), 21-36 (in red pencil, second half of each line only), 43-50 (in red pencil, first half of each line only), annotated "This was the original manuscript copy of Gray's Ode found amongst his papers by W. Mason who gave it to me E. Harcourt".
    
    
  • • 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].
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0120 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 1 page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, f. 3r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 101, 89; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 1. and identified on f. 3r as "1. Ode. (Lo, where the rosy-bosom'd &c:)" in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768 London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768. The notes were first published in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0121 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [1?] page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 102, 89; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph notes to the poem in MS instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  
  

• "Ode to Adversity"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.otad
  • Uniform Title: "Ode to Adversity" [e-text]
  • First Line: Daughter of Jove, relentless power,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1753
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 10-11; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 68-74
  • Summary: Completed at Stoke Poges by August 1742 and sent in a letter to Horace Walpole, 8 September [1751]. First published, as "Hymn to Adversity", in Dodsley's Designs (1753), [24].

  4 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].
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0124 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 1 page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [motto only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, f. 3r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 105, 89; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph motto for the poem, untitled but numbered 4. and identified on f. 3r as "4. Ode, to Adversity", in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768 London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768. The motto first appeared in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0125 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [1?] page, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [motto only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 106, 89; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph motto for the poem in MS instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  
  

• "[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.
    
    
  
  

• [Orders of Insects]

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lt21
  • Uniform Title: [Orders of Insects] [e-text]
  • First Line: Alas lorica tectas Coleoptera jactant.
  • Language: Latin
  • First Published: 1814 and 1966
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 179-185 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 337-342 (with English prose translation)
  • Summary: Begun not earlier than 1759, the year Gray bought his copy of Linnaeus, but possibly only in the last years of his life. The additional lines were presumably abandoned due to his last illness in 1771. First published, as Generick Characters of the Orders of Insects, and of the Genera of the first six Orders, named Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera; expressed in Technical Verses, in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 570-573. Additional lines ("Palpos ore duos, triplexque Lepisma flagellum") first published in Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 185.

  2 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0132 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [after 1759]
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph fair copy
    • Language: Latin
    • Location: Houghton Nor 2103.2, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 110, 90, in an interleaved copy of Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, 10th rev. ed. (Holmiae, 1758-59), item GrT 334, 113
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled, in an interleaved copy of Linnaeus, Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum charateribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..., 10th rev. ed. (Holmiae, 1758-59).
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0133 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [after 1759]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fragment, revised, additional lines
    • Language: Latin
    • Location: Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 4, 79, together with a list of books, item GrT 178, 97, cf. item GrT 233, 102; Jones, Thomas Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph Manuscripts", VI. 20(d), 181
    • Contents: Autograph fragment, revised, here untitled, five additional lines on one page, together with a list of books, later tipped(?) into Herbert Paul, Queen Anne (Asnières, 1906).
    
    
  
  

• "[Parody on an Epitaph]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.pare
  • Uniform Title: "[Parody on an Epitaph]" [e-text]
  • First Line: Now clean, now hideous, mellow now, now gruff,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1882
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 82; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 256-257
  • Summary: Composed shortly after visiting the church at Appleby, c. 3 September 1767, while on a short tour of the Lake District with Thomas Wharton. First published, untitled, in Gosse, Gray (1882), 176.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0136 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1767]
    • Physical Description: 1 page, 63 mm x 197 mm; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), f. 181r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 112, 90; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, on a slip of paper annotated in the hand of Thomas Wharton "Extempore Epitaph on Ann Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, made by M^r. Gray on reading the Epitaph on her mothers tomb in the Church at Appleby composed by the Countess, in the same manner."
    
    
  
  

• "The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.pppo
  • Uniform Title: "The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode" [e-text]
  • First Line: Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1757
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 12-17; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 155-177
  • Summary: Begun not earlier than September 1751 and completed by December 1754 when Gray sent the poem in a letter to Thomas Wharton, dated 26 December 1754. First published, as "Ode." in Odes by Mr. Gray (1757), 5.

  6 Manuscripts:

  • • 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.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0139 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Ode, in the Greek Manner"
    • Date: 26 December 1754
    • Physical Description: 4 pages, 240 mm x 191 mm; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: MS Egerton 2400 (Wharton MS), ff. 67-68, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 115, 90; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 194, vol. i, 412-418 (subscription required); Starr, "Gray's Craftsmanship" (1946), particularly pp. 422-424
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Ode, in the Greek Manner" and including the headings "Strophe", "Antistrophe", and "Epode", sent in and preceding a letter to Thomas Wharton, 26 December 1754.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0140 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [29 December 1756]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, partial [ll. 1-24]
    • Language: English
    • Location: HM 21913, Department of Manuscripts, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, USA <https://www.huntington.org/library-collections>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 116, 90; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 231, vol. ii, 490-492 (subscription required); Starr, "Gray's Craftsmanship" (1946), particularly pp. 422-424
    • Contents: Autograph, here untitled, of ll. 1-24, in a letter to Edward Bedingfield, [29 December 1756].
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0141 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [before 1768]
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph, partial [notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Bound PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 117, 90; Jones, Thomas Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph Manuscripts", VI. 20(b) "Ode to Poesy", 181; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 788(?), 20, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), 45, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 241, 73; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 13
    • Contents: Autograph, revised, notes to the poem, in Gray's copy of Odes by Mr. Gray (1757). The notes were first published in the poem's version in Poems (1768).
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0142 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 3 pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [motto, advertisement, and notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, ff. 3r-4r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 118, 90; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
    • Contents: Autograph of the motto, advertisement, and notes to the poem, untitled but numbered 5. and identified on f. 3r as "5. The progress of Poesy, a Pindaric Ode", in MS instructions to Dodsley for the 1768 London edition, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0143 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [3?] pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph, partial [motto, advertisement, and notes only]
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 119, 91; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph of the motto, advertisement, and notes to the poem, in MS instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  
  

• "Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.sahh
  • Uniform Title: "Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring" [e-text]
  • First Line: O Cambridge, attend
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1884
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 76-77; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 280-282
  • Summary: According to Starr/Hendrickson, possibly written in the late 1740s or early 1750s when Gray's criticism of the University authorities was particularly severe. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. I, 134-135, where the poem is dated "about 1765".

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0145 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "Satire on the Heads of Houses; or, Never a Barrel the Better Herring"
    • Date: [between 1747 and 1765]
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
    • Language: English
    • Location: [privately owned]
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 120, 91; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 615(?), 10, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), 42, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 229(?), 70; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 10
    • Contents: Autograph, owned (1884) by Lord Houghton.
    
    
  
  

• "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.0154 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [before the end of October 1761]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, revised
    • Language: English
    • Location: Bound PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 19, Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 127, 91, with GrT 216, 101, on the verso; Jones, Thomas Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph Manuscripts", VI. 20(a) "Verses on Miss Speed", 181; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 624(?), 11, Sotheby's sale (12 August 1847), lot 90, 27, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), 41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 228, 69; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 9; Nelson, Christine, "extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes". E-mail to the editor, 14 November 2006
    • Contents: Autograph, revised, here untitled, bound into Gray's copy of Odes (1757).
    
    
  
  

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

  • Archive Work ID: poems.sorw
  • Uniform Title: "Sonnet [on the Death of Mr Richard West]" [e-text]
  • First Line: In vain to me the smiling mornings shine,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1775
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 92; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 64-68
  • Summary: Composed at Stoke Poges shortly after the death of Richard West, Gray's closest friend, on 1 June 1742. First published, entitled "Sonnet On the Death of Mr. Richard West", in Mason's Poems (1775), 60.

  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.
    
    
  
  

• "[Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.tra6
  • Uniform Title: "[Translation from Statius, Thebaid VI 646-88, 704-24]" [e-text]
  • First Line: Then thus the king: 'Whoe'er the quoit can wield,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1853
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 54-55; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 17-19
  • Summary: Written before the end of May 1736 when Gray was learning Italian, and sent in two letters, dated [8 May 1736] (ll. 646-88) and [before 24 May 1736] (ll. 704-24), to Richard West. Gray's translation of ll. 689-703 has not survived. Translation of ll. 646-88 (59 lines) first published, untitled, in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason (1853), letter I, 2-4, and of ll. 704-24 (27 lines) first published in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section I, 9-10.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0174 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "E lib: 6to Thebaidos"
    • Date: 8 May [1736]
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 145, 93; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 22, vol. i, 38-41 (subscription required); Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 614(?), 10, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 244, 74
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy of a translation of Thebaid, VI, 646-88, headed "E lib: 6to Thebaidos", in a letter to Richard West, 8 May [1736].
    
    
  
  

• "[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."

  • Archive Work ID: poems.trgl
  • Uniform Title: "[Translation] From Tasso [Gerusalemme Liberata] Canto 14, Stanza 32-9." [e-text]
  • First Line: Dismissed at length, they break through all delay
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1814
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 58-60; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 21-23
  • Summary: Written in 1737 when Gray was translating other Italian verse by Dante and Petrarch and sent in a letter to Richard West, [22 May 1737]. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 90-92.

  2 Manuscripts:

  • • 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.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0172 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [22 May 1737]
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
    • Language: English
    • Location: Manuscript Collections, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 144, 93; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 37*, vol. iii, 1315-1319
    • Contents: Autograph, here untitled, in a letter to Richard West, [22 May 1737].
    
    
  
  

• "[Translation of Ode 'Away; let nought to love displeasing']"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.lt24
  • Uniform Title: "[Translation of Ode 'Away; let nought to love displeasing']" [e-text]
  • First Line: Vah, tenero quodcunque potest obsistere amori,
  • Language: Latin
  • First Published: 1890
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 115-117, 250-251 (with English prose translation and the original English version); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 287-290 (with English prose translation and the original English version)
  • Summary: Written probably as a school exercise at Eton between 1725 and 1734. First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 298-300.

  1 Manuscript:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0175 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [between 1725 and 1734]
    • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
    • Language: Latin
    • Location: [privately owned]
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 146, 93; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (29 February 1960), lot 67
    • Contents: Autograph in pencil and inked over, here untitled, bound into a copy of James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (London, 1791), owned (1966) by Charles W. Traylen Booksellers (out of business since 2003).
    • Related Material: MS 0176.
    
    
  
  

• [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"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.trow
  • Uniform Title: "The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment" [e-text]
  • First Line: Owen's praise demands my song,
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1768
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 35-36; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 228-233
  • Summary: Written probably in 1760 or 1761 when Gray was living in London. Based on a Latin translation by Evan Evans of the original Welsh "Arwyain Owain Gwynnedd" by Gwalchmai ap Meilyr. First published in Poems (1768).

  3 Manuscripts:

  • • 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.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0191 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1?] February 1768
    • Physical Description: 2 pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph fair copy
    • Language: English
    • Location: Add. MS 38511, ff. 6v-7r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 163, 95; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=137227>
    • Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled but numbered 9. and identified on f. 3r as "9. The Triumphs of Owen, a fragment", headed "Prefix...Owen succeeded his Father Griffin in the principality of North-Wales, A:D: 1120. this battle was fought near forty years afterwards. (from Mr Evans's Specimens of the Welch poetry. Lond: 1764. 4to)", including an explanatory note of "The Dragon-Son", used as printer's copy for Poems (1768), in MS instructions to Dodsley, sent in a letter, [1?] February 1768.
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0192 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: 1 February 1768
    • Physical Description: [2?] pages, 324 mm x 200 mm; autograph
    • Language: English
    • Location: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, Vol. 52, Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ, USA <http://rbsc.princeton.edu/>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 164, 95; Heist, Michael, "RE: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, vol.52, Robert H. Taylor Collection". E-mail to the editor, 11 January 2007
    • Contents: Autograph, untitled but numbered 9. and identified from the table of contents as "9. The Triumphs of Owen (from the Welch)", and headed "Note) Owen succeeded his Father Griffin in the principality of North Wales, A:D: 1120. this battle was fought near 40 years afterwards, (from Mr Evans's Specimens of the Welch poetry. Lond: 1764.4to)" together with a note on the Dragon-Son, in MS Instructions to Beattie for the 1768 Glasgow edition, originally sent in a letter, 1 February 1768.
    • Separated Material: The letter in which these instructions were originally sent is now at Historic Collections, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.
    
    
  
  

• "William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York"

  • Archive Work ID: poems.wsma
  • Uniform Title: "William Shakespeare to Mrs Anne, Regular Servant to the Revd Mr Precentor of York" [e-text]
  • First Line: A moment's patience, gentle Mistress Anne!
  • Language: English
  • First Published: 1853
  • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 80-81; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 252-255
  • Summary: Written early in July 1765 while on a visit to Thomas Wharton at Old Park, Durham, and sent in a letter to William Mason, [c. 8 July 1765]. First published in Mitford (ed.), Correspondence of Gray and Mason (1853), letter XC, 339-340.

  2 Manuscripts:

  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0195 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: "William Shakespeare To M^rs Anne, Regular Servant to the Rev^d M^r Precentor of York"
    • Date: [8 July 1765?]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph
    • Language: English
    • Location: Henry W. And Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA <https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature>
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 166, 96; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 407, vol. ii, 879-881 (subscription required)
    • Contents: Autograph in a letter to William Mason, [c. 8 July 1765].
    
    
  • • Archive MS ID: mss.0196 (Source: EAD/XML)
    • Title: [untitled]
    • Date: [1765]
    • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph draft, the whole erased
    • Language: English
    • Location: [privately owned]
    • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 167, 96, in a notebook, item GrT 295, 109; Toynbee, "Newly Discovered Draft" (1930), MS transcribed and discussed
    • Contents: Autograph draft, here untitled and the whole erased, owned (1988) by Lt.-Col. John Murray.