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Title: Inscription for a villa of a decayed statesman on the sea coast
Author: Gray, Thomas
Date(s): 1766
Manuscript: Lt q 49
Contents: Ironic poem on the mock-classical villa at Kingsgate (Margate, Kent) built by Henry Fox, first Lord Holland
Title: An Elegy written in a Country Church Yard
Author: Gray, Thomas
Date(s): 175-?
Manuscript: Lt 99
Contents: Elegy on the forgotten lives and deaths of unknown people buried in Stoke Poges country churchyard
Title: An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
Author: Gray, Thomas
Date(s): 1750
Manuscript: Lt 109
Contents: Elegy, in the tradition of graveyard poetry, reflecting on time, mortality and memory; the poem is incomplete (the poem has 128 lines, not 92)
Title: On a favourite Cat called Selima that fell into a China Cistern that had Gold Fish in it, and was Drown'd.
Author: Gray, Thomas
Date(s): 1748 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 119
Contents: On a cat being drowned falling into a goldfish pool
Title: The university courtship
Author: Gray, Thomas
Attribution: Gray & not in his works
Date(s): 1764
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Outspoken satire on the licentious character of John Montagu, Earl of
Sandwich, and on the Divinity Faculty of Cambridge, on the occasion of his
candidacy for the High Stewardship of the University