grayt.ead.0001-mss.0148 Thomas Gray Manuscripts: An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive. Alexander Huber Thomas Gray Archive 2006 Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber, Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005- English grayt.ead.0001-mss.0148#did0001 mss.poems Poems [ca. 1725]-1771 poems.sng1 Song I 'Midst beauty and pleasure's gay triumphs, to languish 1797 Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 99 Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 240-241

Written before October 1761 at the request of Gray's friend Henrietta Speed . Walpole transcribed and sent it in a letter to Caroline Campbell, Countess of Ailesbury, 28 November 1761. First published, beginning "With beauty, with pleasure surrounded, to languish", in Pope's Works (1797), ed. Joseph Warton, vol. II, 285n. Entitled Amatory Lines by Mitford and Northup, Bibliography (1917), 61 .

mss.0148 poems.sng1 Song [after 1771] 1 transcript in the hand of William Mason GBR/1058/GRA/1, Commonplace Book, Vol. III, 1105 College Library PBCC

Microfilm copy available in Poetic Commonplace Books and Manuscripts of Thomas Gray, 1716-1771, from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1999), reel one

Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 123, 91 Poetic C. B., Pembroke College (1999), 30

Transcript in the hand of William Mason , here entitled Song and annotated "From an interlind & corrected Copy", in Gray's Commonplace Book, vol. III, 1105.

Digital facsimile [JPEG] from original MS