"[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.

3 Manuscripts:

• • 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.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0176 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 2 pages, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
  • Language: Latin
  • Location: Add. MS 32561, ff. 86-87, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 147, 93; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 250
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, untitled, but identified "N.B. The above is a free Translation of Gilb. Coopers Ode / Away let Nought to Love displeasing / ..." and annotated "The following Poem is written with Ink by Mason over Gray's Pencil, which was very faint, in order apparently to preserve it." and "N.B. Grays writing perceptible below the Ink-letters", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 86-87.
  • Related Material: MS 0176 apparently transcribed from MS 0175.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0246 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: Poem
  • Date: [between c. 1750 and c. 1775]
  • Physical Description: 2 pages; transcript
  • Language: Latin, English
  • Location: Collection of poems, ca. 1750-ca. 1775, Y.d.183 (12), Manuscripts Collection, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., USA <http://www.folger.edu/>
  • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Microfilm Collection, FILM Fo. 107a, Microfilm of Y.d.183 (1-14), 1 microfilm reel : negative, 16:1, 7 feet ; 35 mm.
  • References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=56598> (no author attribution)
  • Contents: Poem in English, beginning "Away! let nought to love displeasing", and Latin verse translation beginning "Vah! tenero quodcunque potest obsistere amori", from the G. E. Solly and Mrs. M. A. Carew sale of Garrick MSS at Sotheby's, June 18-21, 1928.