"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.0153 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1776 and 1804]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 193 mm x 160 mm; transcript in the hand of John Phillipps
  • Language: English
  • Location: BOD MS Eng.misc.e.241, f. 119v, Special Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/locations>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 91; Crum (ed.), First-Line Index (1969), vol. II, 953, item T2676; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=83634>
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Phillipps, endorsed beneath the poem "Mr. Gray", in a volume of collected verse, copied from manuscripts, printed editions and newspapers, by John Phillipps of the Middle Temple and Exeter College, Oxford, 1776-1804 (Summary Catalogue, 45759).
  • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.