"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.

2 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0158 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: July 1790
  • Physical Description: [1?] page; transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale
  • Language: English
  • Location: HM 12183, Vol. V, 153, Department of Manuscripts, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, USA <https://www.huntington.org/library-collections>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 131, 92; Balderston, K. C. (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1942)
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale, untitled and beginning "Thyrsis when he left me swore", in her MS Thraliana, vol. V, 153.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0159 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [after 1761]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 230 mm x 190 mm; transcript in an unidentified hand
  • Language: English
  • Location: HM 12550, Department of Manuscripts, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, USA <https://www.huntington.org/library-collections>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 132, 92; Richardson, Gayle M., "HM 12550". E-mail to the editor, 15 November 2006
  • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified hand, here untitled and beginning "Thyrsis when he left me swore", together with MS 0151, annotated in the hand of Horace Walpole "The following two poems were given to Mr. Jacob by (Miss Speed) Countess of Vim, who told him they (were) written by Mr. Gray".