"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.

4 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0157 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 32561, f. 73, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 130, 92; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414
  • Contents: Transcript of MS 0154, untitled, in the hand of John Mitford, including variant readings, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 73.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0152 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Thyrsis"
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, partial [ll. 10, 12]
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 32561, f. 181r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 91
  • Contents: Transcript, here entitled "Thyrsis", of variants of ll. 10 and 12 in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", f. 181r.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0208 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Thyrsis"
  • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford, partial [ll. 10, 12] and crossed out
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 29r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 91
  • Contents: Transcript, here entitled "Thyrsis", of variants of ll. 10 and 12 in the hand of John Mitford (crossed out), in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 29r.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0254 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Song By Mr Gray"
  • Date: [?]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, c. 230 mm x 185 mm; transcript
  • Language: English
  • Location: Add. MS 51515, f. 3v, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
  • References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=140012>
  • Contents: Transcript of the poem, in a volume entitled "Manuscript Poems" (ff. vii+94), in the Holland House Papers, the papers of the Fox and Fox-Strangways families, Barons Holland and Earls of Ilchester, of Holland House, Kensington.