The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone : manuscript poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, undated [ca. 1819 or later].

Record ID: 
105062
Accession number: 
MA 215.90
Author: 
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.1 cm
Notes: 

Dating: Stillinger (1978, p. 673) dates the composition of this poem to 1819.
Part of a large collection, assembled by Richard Woodhouse, of letters and manuscripts relating to the English poet John Keats. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 215 for more information.

Summary: 

A manuscript copy of the poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse.

Provenance: 
Part of a collection assembled by Richard Woodhouse; by descent in 1834 to the publisher John Taylor; by descent in 1864 to his relatives, descending finally to his niece by marriage, Mrs. George Taylor of Bakewell, Derbyshire; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1906.