Usque dum, fulgore magis magis jam O ego felix, vice si (nec unquam Fallere letho! Multa flagranti radiisque cincto Integris ah! quam nihil inviderem, Cum Dei ardentes medius quadrigas Sentit Olympus? ALCAIC FRAGMENT. [Added to the preceding, in a postscript, and here printed from Gray's MS.-ED.] O LACRYMARUM Fons, tenero sacros Ducentium ortus ex animo; quater SAPPHICS. [This is the opening of a letter, otherwise in prose, sent to Richard West from Genoa on the 21st of November 1739. Mason is responsible for the text.-ED.] HORRIDOS tractus, Boreæque linquens Regna Taurini fera, molliorem Advehor brumam, Genuæque amantes Litora soles. ELEGIACS. [Suggested by a visit to the site of the Battle of Trebia, and sent to R. West from Florence on the 15th of January 1740.. Mason is responsible for the text.—ED.] QUA Trebiae glaucas salices intersecat unda, CARMEN AD C. FAVONIUM ZEPHYRINUM. [Sent to Richard West from Rome in May 1740. It is here printed from the copy in Gray's handwriting among the Stonehewer MSS., to which the poet has himself appended this note :-"Wrote at Rome, the latter end of the spring 1740, after a journey to Frascati and the Cascades of Tivoli."-ED.] VOL. I. MATER rosarum, cui teneræ vigent Et volucrum celebrata cantu! Dic, non inertem fallere qua diem Furore dulci plenus, et immemor N Umbrosa, vel colles amici Palladiæ superantis Albæ. Dilecta Fauno, et capripedum choris Pineta, testor vos, Anio minax Quæcunque per clivos volutus Præcipiti tremefecit amne, Illius altum Tibur, et Æsulæ Naiasin ingeminasse rupes; Dulcè canens Venusinus ales Mirum! canenti conticuit nemus, Sacrique fontes, et retinent adhuc (Sic Musa jussit) saxa molles ; Docta modos, veteresque lauri. Mirare nec tu me citharæ rudem Claudis laborantem numeris: loca Amoena, jucundumque ver incompositum docuere carmen; Hærent sub omni nam folio nigri Phoebea luci (credite) somnia, Argutiusque et lympha et auræ Nescio quid solito loquuntur. FRAGMENT OF A LATIN POEM ON THE GAURUS. [Sent to Richard West from Florence in a letter dated September 25, 1740. It is here printed from a copy in Gray's handwriting among the Stonehewer MSS., to which the poet has appended this note :- -"Rome, July 1740; just returned from Naples."-ED.] NEC procul infelix se tollit in æthera Gaurus, Nam fama est olim, media dum rura silebant Ah, miser! increpitans sæpè alta vocè per umbram Nequicquam natos, creditque audire sequentes. Atque ille excelso rupis de vertice solus Respectans notasque domos, et dulcia regna, Quin ubi detonuit fragor, et lux reddita cœlo ; Hinc infame loci nomen, multosque per annos Montis adhuc facies manet hirta atque aspera saxis: Sed furor extinctus jamdudum, et flamma quievit, |