grayt.ead.0001-mss.0175Thomas Gray Manuscripts:An Inventory at the Thomas Gray Archive.Alexander HuberThomas Gray Archive2006Catalogued in EAD 2002 by Alexander Huber,
Editor, Thomas Gray Archive, 2005-Englishgrayt.ead.0001-mss.0175#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.lt24[Translation of Ode 'Away; let nought to love
displeasing']Vah, tenero quodcunque potest obsistere amori,1890LatinStarr/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)
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.
mss.0175poems.lt24[untitled][between 1725 and
1734][?]autographLatin[privately owned]Smith (ed.), Index (1989), item GrT 146, 93Catalogue of a Sotheby's sale (29 February 1960), lot
67
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).