grayt.ead.0001-mss.0151 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.0151#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.0151 poems.sng1 [untitled] [after 1761] 1 transcript in an unidentified hand 230 mm x 190 mm HM 12550 Department of Manuscripts HULI Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 126, 91 Richardson, Gayle M., "HM 12550". E-mail to the editor, 15 November 2006

Transcript in an unidentified hand, untitled and beginning "With beauty with pleasure surrounded to languish", together with MS 0159, annotated in the hand of Horace Walpole "The following two poems were given to Mr. Jacob by ( Miss Speed ) Countess of Vim, who told him they (were) written by Mr. Gray".