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Latin Poems

  • "Ad C: Favonium Aristium"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt01
    • Uniform Title: "Ad C: Favonium Aristium" [e-text]
    • First Line: Barbaras aedes aditure mecum,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 138-140 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 306-308 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Cambridge when Gray was about to join Richard West (Favonius) at the Inner Temple, where they intended to study law together. First published, untitled but referred to in a footnote as a "Sapphic Ode", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section I, letter no. XIV. Mason is the only source for this letter, dated June 1738, in which Gray originally sent the poem to West. MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0001 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ad C: Favonium Aristium"
      • Date: June 1738
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 53, 90, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 1, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 21; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 136
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, annotated "Cambridge. June, 1738" in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, split over two pages: p. 53 (ll. 1-40) and p. 90 (ll. 41-52).
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0233 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode on Mr. West's leaving the University"
      • Date: 1780[?]
      • Physical Description: 6 pages, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS Add. 439, "Latin Pieces" section, 1-6, The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, York, UK <https://yorkminster.org/treasures-and-collections.html>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled "Ode on Mr. West's leaving the University" (p. 1) ("Ode. I." [p. 3]). The poem is part of a section called "Latin Pieces", which is separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 24), in a volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.


  • "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt02
    • Uniform Title: "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum" [e-text]
    • First Line: Mater rosarum, cui tenerae vigent
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 144-145 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 310-312 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Rome in the Spring of 1740 while on the Grand Tour with Horace Walpole. First published, untitled but referred to in a footnote as "Ad C. Favonium Zephyrinum", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section II, letter no. XXI. Mason is the only source for this letter, dated May 1740, in which Gray originally sent the poem to West (Favonius). MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.

    4 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0003 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ad C: Favonium Zephyrinum"
      • Date: Spring 1740
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 128, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 2, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 138
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, annotated "Wrote at Rome, the latter end of the Spring, 1740. after a journey to Frescati & the Cascades of Tivoli", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 128.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0004 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Alcaïca"
      • Date: May 1740
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/4/4, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 3, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here entitled "Alcaïca", endorsed in an unidentified hand "by T. Gray, from Tivoli".

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0002 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode to Mr. West"
      • Date: [between 1776 and 1804]
      • Physical Description: 3 pages, 193 mm x 160 mm; transcript and English translation in the hand of John Phillipps
      • Language: Latin, English
      • Location: BOD MS Eng.misc.e.241, ff. 43-44r, Special Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/locations>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 79; Crum (ed.), First-Line Index (1969), vol. II, 668, item O754; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=76914>
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Phillipps (f. 43), followed by an English translation headed "Translation" (ff. 43v-44r), in a volume of collected verse, copied from manuscripts, printed editions and newspapers, by John Phillipps of the Middle Temple and Exeter College, Oxford, 1776-1804 (Summary Catalogue, 45759).
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0234 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode to Caius Favonius Zephyrinus"
      • Date: 1780[?]
      • Physical Description: 5 pages, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS Add. 439, "Latin Pieces" section, 7-11, The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, York, UK <https://yorkminster.org/treasures-and-collections.html>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled "Ode to Caius Favonius Zephyrinus" (p. 7) ("Ode II." [p. 9]). The poem is part of a section called "Latin Pieces", which is separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 24), in a volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.


  • "[Alcaic Fragment]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt03
    • Uniform Title: "[Alcaic Fragment]" [e-text]
    • First Line: O lachrymarum Fons, tenero sacros
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 140-141 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 308 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Cambridge when Gray was about to join Richard West at the Inner Temple, where they intended to study law together. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section I, letter no. XIV. Mason is the only source for this letter, dated June 1738, in which Gray originally sent the poem to West.

    1 Manuscript:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0007 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1738?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 90, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 5, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 21; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 137
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled but identified in the index at the end as "Tears, (Latin Alcaïc) fragment on them", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 90.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.


  • "[Alcaic Ode]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt04
    • Uniform Title: "[Alcaic Ode]" [e-text]
    • First Line: O Tu, severi relligio loci,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 151-152 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 317-318 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Gray wrote this poem in the album of the monastery of the Grande Chartreuse on this second visit on 21 August 1741, during his journey from Turin to Lyon, when he was returning alone from the Grand Tour. First published, as "Ode", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 117-118. MS translation into English by Thomas Wharton.

    4 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0008 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "In the Book at the Grande Chartreuse among the Mountains of Dauphiné"
      • Date: August 1741
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 129, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 6, 79; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "In the Book at the Grande Chartreuse among the Mountains of Dauphiné", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 129.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0005 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Gray's Ode on visiting The Grand Chartreuse – written in The Album of the Fathers"
      • Date: [1807?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 167 mm x 103 mm; transcript in the hand of Joseph Hunter
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Add. MS 24614, f. 11v, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 79; Northup, Bibliography (1917), item 1997
      • Contents: Transcript, entitled "Gray's Ode on visiting The Grand Chartreuse – written in The Album of the Fathers", in the hand of Joseph Hunter, in a volume prefaced "Silva Poetica" (1807).

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0006 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode to the Deity of the Grand Chartreuse"
      • Date: [between 1776 and 1804]
      • Physical Description: 3 pages, 193 mm x 160 mm; transcript and English translation in the hand of John Phillipps
      • Language: Latin, English
      • Location: BOD MS Eng.misc.e.241, ff. 42-43r, Special Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Oxford, UK <http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/weston/finding-resources/locations>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 79; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 414; Crum (ed.), First-Line Index (1969), vol. II, 674, item O877; Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=77055>
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Phillipps (f. 42), followed by an English translation headed "Translation" (ff. 42v-43r), in a volume of collected verse, copied from manuscripts, printed editions and newspapers, by John Phillipps of the Middle Temple and Exeter College, Oxford, 1776-1804 (Summary Catalogue, 45759).
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0235 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Ode composed at the Grande Chartreuse"
      • Date: 1780[?]
      • Physical Description: 4 pages, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS Add. 439, "Latin Pieces" section, 13-16, The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, York, UK <https://yorkminster.org/treasures-and-collections.html>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled "Ode composed at the Grande Chartreuse" (p. 13) ("Ode III." [p. 15]). The poem is part of a section called "Latin Pieces", which is separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 24), in a volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.


  • De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Primus. Ad Favonium.

    3 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0031 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Primus: Ad Favonium
      • Date: 1740
      • Physical Description: 4 pages; autograph, revised
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 129, 138, 289, 438, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 23, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22, 23, 25, 26; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 128
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, with line numbers (10, 20, etc.) and marginal notes, unfinished, annotated "Begun at Florence in 1740", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, split over four pages: p. 129 (ll. 1-27), 138 (ll. 28-79), 289 (ll. 80-151), and p. 438 (ll. 152-207). In the index to the Commonplace Book, the poem is listed as "Thinking (the Principles of) a Latin Poem, unfinish'd".
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0030 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "De Principiis Cogitandi"
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript of variant readings in the hand of John Mitford, partial [18 lines]
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Add. MS 32561, ff. 191r, 192r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 81
      • Contents: Transcript of variant readings (18 lines) in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 191r, 192r.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0205 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "De Principiis Cogitandi"
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 1 page, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript of variant readings in the hand of John Mitford, partial [18 lines] and crossed out
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Add. MS 32562, f. 86r, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), 81
      • Contents: Transcript of variant readings (18 lines, crossed out) in the hand of John Mitford, in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. IV, f. 86r.


  • De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus.

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt06
    • Uniform Title: De Principiis Cogitandi. Liber Secundus. [e-text]
    • First Line: Hactenus haud segnis Naturae arcana retexi
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 168-170 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 328, 332 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Begun at Stoke Poges in June 1742 and sent in a letter, dated [8 February 1747], to Horace Walpole. First published, as "Liber Quartus", in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 168-169.

    3 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0032 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1747?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph written in red crayon and pencil, revised, partial [34 lines], quarto
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 24, 81; Munby (ed.), Sale Catalogues (1971), Sotheby's sale (28 August 1851), lot 53, 41, Sotheby's sale (4 August 1854), lot 230, 70; W[right]., Catalogue (1851), [lot 53,] 9; Catalogue of a Sotheby Parke-Bernet sale (6 April 1982), lot 53; Bonhams sale (10 April 2013), lot 185 (with facsimile)
      • Contents: An autograph of 28 lines and 6 deleted lines, revised, of Book II of De Principiis Cogitandi written in red crayon and pencil (two lines), together with a note on human desires.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0033 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Liber Secundus. De Principiis Cogitandi"
      • Date: 1742
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy, revised, partial
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 286, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 25, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, revised, here entitled "Liber Secundus. De Principiis Cogitandi", unfinished, annotated "Begun at Stoke, June, 1742", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol I, 286.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0034 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: 1747
      • Physical Description: [1?] page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/3/4/42, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 26, 81; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), letter no. 131, vol. i, 264-268 (subscription required); Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled and referred to as "the Beginning of the fourth Book" of "a large Design", in a letter to Horace Walpole, [8 February 1747].


  • "[Farewell to Florence]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt08
    • Uniform Title: "[Farewell to Florence]" [e-text]
    • First Line: . . . oh Faesulae, amoena
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 149-150 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 315 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Florence not later than 21 April 1741 and introduced "Eleven months, at different times, have I passed at Florence; and yet (God help me) know not either people or language. Yet the place and the charming prospects demand a poetical farewell, and here it is." Shortly before leaving Florence, Gray sent it in a letter of that date to Richard West. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 115.

    1 Manuscript:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0062 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: 1741
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 139, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 48, 83; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.


  • "From Petrarch. Lib: I: Sonett: 170"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt09
    • Uniform Title: "From Petrarch. Lib: I: Sonett: 170" [e-text]
    • First Line: Uror io! veros at nemo credidit ignes:
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1814
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 141-142 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 308-309 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written probably in 1737 or 1738 when Gray was translating other Italian verse by Tasso and Dante. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 93.

    1 Manuscript:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0070 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "From Petrarch. Lib: I: Sonett: 170"
      • Date: [1738?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 139, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 56, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.


  • "[The Gaurus]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt10
    • Uniform Title: "[The Gaurus]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Nec procul infelix se tollit in aethera Gaurus,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 146-149 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 312-315 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Rome in June or early July 1740 while on the Grand Tour with Horace Walpole, and sent from Florence in a letter to Richard West, dated [25 September 1740]. First published, untitled, in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section II, letter no. XXVII.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0071 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: July 1740
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 115, 128, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 57, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 22; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 138
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, under the heading "Carmina" and annotated "Rome -- July, 1740 just return'd from Naples", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, split over two pages: p. 115 (ll. 1-52) and p. 128 (ll. 53-61).
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0072 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: June 1740
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/4/5, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 58, 84; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 33
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled, annotated in an unidentified hand "A Fragment in the Stile of Virgil, by T. Gray from Naples".


  • "[Gratia magna]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt11
    • Uniform Title: "[Gratia magna]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Gratia magna tuae fraudi quod Pectore, Nice
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 134-137 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 303-306 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written probably in 1737 or 1738 when Gray was corresponding and exchanging poetry with Richard West who was then at Christ Church, Oxford. First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 296-298.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0073 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1738?]
      • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: [unlocated]
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 59, 84; Starr/Hendrickson, "Supplementary Note on Thomas Gray's 'Gratia Magna'" (1967), 412
      • Contents: An unlocated autograph, formerly owned (1967) by collector Gordon N. Ray.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0074 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 3 pages, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Add. MS 32561, ff. 83-85, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 60, 84
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford of an unfinished draft, untitled but headed "MS Poem", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 83-85.


  • "Imitated [from Buondelmonte]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt14
    • Uniform Title: "Imitated [from Buondelmonte]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Lusit amicitiae interdum velatus amictu,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 150 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 316 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written at Florence in the autumn of 1740 and sent in a letter, dated 21 April 1741, to Richard West. First published, untitled, with the original Italian poem in Mason's Memoirs (1775), 115.

    1 Manuscript:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0076 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Imitated"
      • Date: 1741
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 139, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 62, 85; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 23
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "Imitated", together with a copy of the Italian original "Spesso Amor sotto la forma", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 139.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.


  • "In D[iem]: 29am Maii"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt15
    • Uniform Title: "In D[iem]: 29am Maii" [e-text]
    • First Line: Bella per Angliacos plusquam civilia campos
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 125-127 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 296-297 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Composed as an undergraduate exercise at Cambridge, possibly in 1735. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 166.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0087 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "In D[iem]: 29am Maii"
      • Date: [1735?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/4/2, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 73, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 32; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy signed "Gray".


  • "In 5tam Novembris"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt16
    • Uniform Title: "In 5tam Novembris" [e-text]
    • First Line: Lis anceps, multosque diu protracta per annos,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 127-129 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 297-299 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Composed as an undergraduate exercise at Cambridge, possibly in 1735. First published in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 167.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0086 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "In 5tam Novembris"
      • Date: [1735?]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/4/1, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel two
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 72, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 32; Sutton (ed.), Location Register (1995), 415
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy signed "Gray".


  • "[Latin exercise from the Tatler]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt17
    • Uniform Title: "[Latin exercise from the Tatler]" [e-text]
    • First Line: . . . pluviaeque loquaces
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1814
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 112 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 285 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Composed as a school exercise at Eton, possibly in 1731. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 596.

    1 Manuscript:


  • "[Latin verses at Eton]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt18
    • Uniform Title: "[Latin verses at Eton]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Pendet Homo incertus gemini ad confinia mundi
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1882 and 1884
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 117-121 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 290-293 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Composed as a school exercise at Eton between February 1733 and September 1734. First published, in part and untitled, in Gosse, Gray (1882), 6-7, published in full in Gosse (ed.), Works (1884), vol. i, 163 as "Play Exercise at Eton".

    1 Manuscript:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0093 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between February 1733 and September 1734]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 50-51, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 78, 86; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 21; Martin, Chronologie (1931), 136
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, here untitled but under the heading "Carmina", annotated by Gray "Play-Exercise at Eton" and listed in the index at the end as "Knowledge of Himself, Latin Verses at Eton", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 50-51.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.


  • "[Oh ubi colles]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt20
    • Uniform Title: "[Oh ubi colles]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Oh ubi colles, ubi Faesularum,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 152 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 318 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written probably at London soon after returning from the Grand Tour, in [September] 1741. First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 296.

    1 Manuscript:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0126 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [1741?]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, revised
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 381, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 107, 89; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 26
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, here untitled, in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 381.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.


  • [Orders of Insects]

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt21
    • Uniform Title: [Orders of Insects] [e-text]
    • First Line: Alas lorica tectas Coleoptera jactant.
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1814 and 1966
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 179-185 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 337-342 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Begun not earlier than 1759, the year Gray bought his copy of Linnaeus, but possibly only in the last years of his life. The additional lines were presumably abandoned due to his last illness in 1771. First published, as Generick Characters of the Orders of Insects, and of the Genera of the first six Orders, named Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Lepidoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, and Diptera; expressed in Technical Verses, in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 570-573. Additional lines ("Palpos ore duos, triplexque Lepisma flagellum") first published in Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 185.

    2 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0132 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [after 1759]
      • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Houghton Nor 2103.2, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA <http://library.harvard.edu/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 110, 90, in an interleaved copy of Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, 10th rev. ed. (Holmiae, 1758-59), item GrT 334, 113
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, untitled, in an interleaved copy of Linnaeus, Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum charateribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..., 10th rev. ed. (Holmiae, 1758-59).

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0133 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [after 1759]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fragment, revised, additional lines
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA <http://www.themorgan.org/collection>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 4, 79, together with a list of books, item GrT 178, 97, cf. item GrT 233, 102; Jones, Thomas Gray, Scholar (1937), "Register of Gray Autograph Manuscripts", VI. 20(d), 181
      • Contents: Autograph fragment, revised, here untitled, five additional lines on one page, together with a list of books, later tipped(?) into Herbert Paul, Queen Anne (Asnières, 1906).


  • "[Paraphrase of Psalm LXXXIV]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt22
    • Uniform Title: "[Paraphrase of Psalm LXXXIV]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Oh! Tecta, mentis dulcis amor meae!
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1849 and 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 112-114 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 285-287 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written probably as a school exercise at Eton between 1725 and 1734, possibly Gray's earliest complete composition. First published, ll. 1-20 only, in The Gentleman's Magazine N.S. 32 (October 1849), 343, published in full, as "Early Alcaics of Gray", in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 300-301.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0134 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Add. MS 32561, ff. 67-68, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 111, 90
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, untitled, subscribed "The above is the 84th Psalm" and "[N.B. The above Ode is written in Mr Grays Hand: but evidently when young, the hand being unformed, & like a Schoolboys, tho' very plain & careful. The Leaf on which it is written, apparently torn from a Copy-book. Some of the Expressions resemble those in the Gr. Chartreuse Ode.]", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 67-68.


  • "[Sophonisba Masinissae. Epistola]"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt23
    • Uniform Title: "[Sophonisba Masinissae. Epistola]" [e-text]
    • First Line: Egregium accipio promissi Munus amoris,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1775
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 153-156 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 318-321 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Written before mid-May 1742. First published in Mason's Memoirs (1775), section III, letter X. Mason is the only source for this (probably conflated) letter, dated [27 May 1742], in which Gray originally sent the poem to Richard West.

    1 Manuscript:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0236 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "Sophonisba Massinissae. Epistola"
      • Date: 1780[?]
      • Physical Description: 6 pages, 180 mm x 110 mm; transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand on Whatman paper
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: MS Add. 439, "Latin Pieces" section, 17-22, The Archives, York Minster Library & Archives, York, UK <https://yorkminster.org/treasures-and-collections.html>
      • Contents: Transcript in an unidentified neat and legible hand, entitled "Sophonisba Massinissae. Epistola" (p. 17) ("Epistola." [p. 19]). The poem, which contains three variant readings ("fata" for "fama" [l. 15], "Consideramque" for "Credideramque" [l. 44] and "resurgat" for "recursat" [l. 51]), is part of a section called "Latin Pieces", which is separately paginated and has its own table of contents (p. 24), in a volume entitled Gray's Poems. The book carries the bookplate of Gray's friend and biographer William Mason.


  • "[Translation of Ode 'Away; let nought to love displeasing']"

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt24
    • Uniform Title: "[Translation of Ode 'Away; let nought to love displeasing']" [e-text]
    • First Line: Vah, tenero quodcunque potest obsistere amori,
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 115-117, 250-251 (with English prose translation and the original English version); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 287-290 (with English prose translation and the original English version)
    • Summary: Written probably as a school exercise at Eton between 1725 and 1734. First published, untitled, in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 298-300.

    3 Manuscripts:

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0175 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between 1725 and 1734]
      • Physical Description: [?] pages; autograph
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: [privately owned]
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 146, 93; Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (29 February 1960), lot 67
      • Contents: Autograph in pencil and inked over, here untitled, bound into a copy of James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (London, 1791), owned (1966) by Charles W. Traylen Booksellers (out of business since 2003).
      • Related Material: MS 0176.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0176 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: [untitled]
      • Date: [between 1845 and 1856]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages, 180 mm x 115 mm; transcript in the hand of John Mitford
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: Add. MS 32561, ff. 86-87, Manuscripts Collection, British Library, London, UK <http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/>
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 147, 93; Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 250
      • Contents: Transcript in the hand of John Mitford, untitled, but identified "N.B. The above is a free Translation of Gilb. Coopers Ode / Away let Nought to Love displeasing / ..." and annotated "The following Poem is written with Ink by Mason over Gray's Pencil, which was very faint, in order apparently to preserve it." and "N.B. Grays writing perceptible below the Ink-letters", in John Mitford, Note-Books, vol. III "Mitford. Extracts from Mr Grays Common-place books", ff. 86-87.
      • Related Material: MS 0176 apparently transcribed from MS 0175.

      • Archive MS ID: mss.0246 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: Poem
      • Date: [between c. 1750 and c. 1775]
      • Physical Description: 2 pages; transcript
      • Language: Latin, English
      • Location: Collection of poems, ca. 1750-ca. 1775, Y.d.183 (12), Manuscripts Collection, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., USA <http://www.folger.edu/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Microfilm Collection, FILM Fo. 107a, Microfilm of Y.d.183 (1-14), 1 microfilm reel : negative, 16:1, 7 feet ; 35 mm.
      • References: Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger Shakespeare Library. 19 March 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=56598> (no author attribution)
      • Contents: Poem in English, beginning "Away! let nought to love displeasing", and Latin verse translation beginning "Vah! tenero quodcunque potest obsistere amori", from the G. E. Solly and Mrs. M. A. Carew sale of Garrick MSS at Sotheby's, June 18-21, 1928.


  • [Translations from the Greek Anthology]

    • Archive Work ID: poems.lt25
    • Uniform Title: [Translations from the Greek Anthology] [e-text]
    • First Line: Fertur Aristophanis fatorum arcana rogatum, [etc.]
    • Language: Latin
    • First Published: 1814 and 1890
    • References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 170-178 (with English prose translation); Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 332-337 (with English prose translation)
    • Summary: Thirteen small pieces, subsumed under the work title [Translations from the Greek Anthology], presumably written late in Gray's Latin period, after his return from the Continent in 1742. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 94-97, except nos. [I] and [XII], first published in Tovey (ed.), Gray and his Friends (1890), 295. No. [VI] was first published as "Nymph offering a Statue of herself to Venus" and beginning "Te tibi, sancta, fero nudam; formosias, ipsa". First published complete and in Gray's order in Bradshaw (ed.), Poetical Works (1891), 168-172.

    13 Manuscripts:

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0177 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[I] From the Greek"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 149, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0178 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[II] From the Greek of Antiphilus Byzantius In Medeae Imaginem, Nobile Timomachi Opus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 150, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0179 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[III] Imitation of the Greek; of Paul Silentiarius. In Bacchae Furentis Statuam"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 151, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0180 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[IV] From the Greek, of Posidippus. In Alexandrum, AEre Effictum"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 152, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0181 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[V] From the Greek. [Anonymous.] In Niobes Statuam"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 153, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0182 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VI] From the Greek, of Lucian, offering a Statue of herself to Venus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph, revised
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 154, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph, revised, the first line altered from "Te tibi, sancta, fero nudam: formosius ipsâ" in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0183 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VII] From the Greek of Statyllius Flaccus. In Amorem dormientem"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 287, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 155, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 287.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0184 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[VIII] From a Fragment of Plato"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 156, 94; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0185 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[IX] From the Greek of Marianus. In Fontem aquae calidae"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 157, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0186 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[X] From Lucillius"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 158, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0187 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XI] Imitated from the Greek of Posidippus. Ad Amorem"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 159, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0188 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XII] . . . . of Bassus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 160, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "...Of Bassus", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.

      • [MS image]Archive MS ID: mss.0189 (Source: EAD/XML)
      • Title: "[XIII] . . . . of Rufinus"
      • Date: [after 1742]
      • Physical Description: 1 page; autograph fair copy
      • Language: Latin
      • Location: GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. I, 288, College Library, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Cambridge, UK <http://www.pem.cam.ac.uk/>
      • Alternate Form: Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one
      • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 161, 95; Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 25
      • Contents: Autograph fair copy, headed "Of Rufinus...", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. I, 288.
      • Surrogates: Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS available online.


Contents

  • Collection: Poems, [ca. 1725]-1771
  • Language: Latin
  • Works: 21
  • Manuscripts: 49

Works