"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.0154 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: [before the end of October 1761]
  • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, revised
  • Language: English
  • Location: Bound PML 16518 (extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes), 19, Literary and Historical Manuscripts (LHMS), Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 127, 91, with GrT 216, 101, on the verso; Jones, Thomas Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph Manuscripts", VI. 20(a) "Verses on Miss Speed", 181; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Evans sale (27-29 November 1845), lot 624(?), 11, Sotheby's sale (12 August 1847), lot 90, 27, Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53(?), 41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 228, 69; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53?,] 9; Nelson, Christine, "extra-illustrated copy of Gray's Odes". E-mail to the editor, 14 November 2006
  • Contents: Autograph, revised, here untitled, bound into Gray's copy of Odes (1757).