"[Couplet about Birds]"

• Archive Work ID: poems.coub
• Uniform Title: "[Couplet about Birds]" [e-text]
• First Line: There pipes the woodlark, and the song-thrush there
• Language: English
• First Published: 1814
• References: Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 106; Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 279-280
• Summary: Composed at Cambridge in spring, presumably between 1763 and 1767, in the company of Norton Nicholls. First published in Mathias (ed.), Works (1814), vol. II, 596.

2 Manuscripts:

• • Archive MS ID: mss.0028 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: November 1805
  • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of Norton Nicholls
  • Language: English
  • Location: John Morris Collection, College Library, Eton College, Windsor, UK <http://www.etoncollege.com/collegelibrary.aspx>
  • References: Mitford (ed.), Works (1843), vol. v, 34; Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 21, 81; Toynbee/Whibley (eds.), Correspondence (1971), vol. iii, 1290
  • Contents: Transcript, untitled, in the hand of Norton Nicholls, in his MS Reminiscences of Gray, p. 5.
  
  
• • Archive MS ID: mss.0029 (Source: EAD/XML)
  • Title: [untitled]
  • Date: May 1795
  • Physical Description: 1 page; transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale
  • Language: English
  • Location: HM 12183, Vol. VI, 111, Department of Manuscripts, The Huntington, San Marino, CA, USA <https://www.huntington.org/library-collections>
  • References: Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 22, 81
  • Contents: Transcript in the hand of Hester Lynch Thrale, untitled, here reading "piped", in her MS Thraliana, vol. VI, 111.