"Song II"
Archive Work ID: poems.sng2
Uniform Title: "Song II" [e-text]
First Line: Thyrsis, when we parted, swore Language: EnglishFirst 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: EnglishLocation: 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 handLanguage: EnglishLocation: 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 2006Contents: 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 ".
Contents
Collection: Poems, [ca. 1725]-1771Work: "Song II" [e-text]Manuscripts: 2