grayt.ead.0001-mss.0254Thomas 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.0254#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.sng2Song IIThyrsis, when we parted, swore1791Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 99-100Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 242-243
Written in October 1761 at the request
of Gray's friend Henrietta Speed.
First published in
The European
Magazine 19 (February 1791), 152.
mss.0254poems.sng2Song By Mr Gray[?]1transcript
c. 230 mm x 185 mmAdd. MS 51515, f. 3v Manuscripts Collection BLUK
MS catalogued by Alexander
Huber in Manuscripts, British Library, on 07/07/2010.
Nelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger
Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=140012>
Transcript of the poem, in a volume entitled
Manuscript Poems (ff. vii+94), in the Holland House
Papers, the papers of the Fox and Fox-Strangways families, Barons Holland and Earls of Ilchester, of Holland House, Kensington.