grayt.ead.0001-mss.0259Thomas 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.0259#did0001mss.poemsPoems[ca.
1725]-1771poems.oopv[Ode on the Pleasure Arising from
Vicissitude]Now the golden Morn aloft1775Starr/Hendrickson (eds.), Complete Poems (1966), 100-103Lonsdale (ed.), Poems (1969), 201-207
Written probably in 1754 or
1755.
First printed privately in 1774. First published, in two versions, among
the notes to the poems, entitled
Ode, On the
Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, and as Ode in Mason'sMemoirs (1775), 78-81 (with Mason's additions) and 236-237 (ll. 1-48 only) respectively.
mss.0259poems.oopv[untitled][?]1transcript, partial
Houghton b MS Lowell 20 (43), 3 The Houghton Library HARVNelson (ed.), Union First Line Index. Mar. 2010. Folger
Shakespeare Library. 9 April 2010. <http://firstlines.folger.edu/detail.php?id=36727>
Transcript of the poem, partial, beginning "The common sun, the air, the skies", in the
Amy Lowell
Collection of Manuscripts of literary and musical figures, collected by
American poet Amy
Lowell.