Orpheus, Hyacinth & Allayne

By Kevin Nicholas Roberts

Nov 15, 2023

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Featured in New Lyre Spring 2021

Orpheus
By Kevin Nicholas Roberts (1968-2008)

Fair phantom notes flow from thy lips
On breath made sweet with supple sighs;
Thy song, in soft and savage sips,
The gods would drink with half-closed eyes.
Your music sooth'd the souls of men
And moved the wind and stir'd the trees—
Forever now, sweet Orpheus,
It haunts the seas.

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