"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.0156 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: 28 November 1761
  • Physical Description: [1?] page; transcript in the hand of Horace Walpole
  • Language: English
  • Location: Manuscript Collections, The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 129, 91; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (5 December 1921), lot 6; Lewis, W. S. et al. (eds.), Horace Walpole's Correspondence (New Haven, 1974), vol. 38, 144-145
  • Contents: Transcript, here untitled, in the hand of Horace Walpole, in a letter to Caroline Campbell, Countess of Ailesbury, 28 November 1761.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0285 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: "Lines by..."
  • Date: [between 1793 and 1800]
  • Physical Description: 1 page, 250mm x 200mm (volume); transcript in the hand of Anne Jane (Gore) Hamilton
  • Language: English
  • Location: c.340, Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University Library, New Haven, CT (Beinecke)/Farmington, CT (Lewis Walpole), USA <http://www.library.yale.edu/>
  • References: Parks, Stephen et al. (ed.), Osborn Collection First-Line Index. New Haven: Beinecke Library, Yale University, 2005, 873, item T2582; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 23 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=10650>
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of Anne Jane (Gore) Hamilton, entitled "Lines by...", in her autograph Commonplace book of original verse and verses contributed by her friends (1 v.; 135 p.).