Orpheus, Hyacinth & Allayne
By Kevin Nicholas Roberts
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.
