...inevitably but to supreme effect: What could the Muse her self that Orpheus bore, The Muse her self, for her enchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. The motif of resurrection...

...invokes the figure of Orpheus, the type of the supreme bard, Homer's equal, but destroyed untimely: What could the Muse herself, that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son . . . Milton brings back the figure of Orpheus in his epic, in the second invocation, placed, just...

...her sharing in its distresses and unfulfilled needs, and through the human quality of her motherhood: What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (Lycidas, 58—63) The elegist sings of the wholeness of a single life scissored prematurely; the powerful...

...poetic succession: What could the Muse her self that Orpheus bore, The Muse her self, for her inchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. Alas! What boots...

...impending death of the arts and of their potential rebirth on other shores.” 94 MOURNING AND PANEGYRIC What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (11. 58—63) Even more significant, however, is the initiatory motif this version of the Orpheus myth...

...ones of abandonment. As Orpheus is rent apart, even maternal protection is rendered utterly powerless. "What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, / The Muse herself for her enchanting son" (Lycidas, 58-59); "... nor could the Muse defend/ Her Son" (PL, VII. 37-38). Despite all of Milton's...

...primitive Pelasgian population but never adopted by the Achaeans. The Maenads triumphed for a time. 'What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?' The dismal savage tale comes to a gentle close. The head of Orpheus, singing always, is found by the...

...sing, and build the lofty rhyme. (lines 10-11) The image of Orpheus is appropriately present yet again: What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The...lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goary visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? (lines 58-63) Orpheus...

...ones of abandonment. As Orpheus is rent apart, even maternal protection is rendered utterly powerless. "What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, / The Muse herself for her enchanting son'' (Lycidas, 58- 59); "... nor could the Muse defend / Her Son'' (PL, VII. 37-38). Despite all of Milton's...

...promoted by the death of Eurydice and whose fate, as Milton relates it, was that his disembodied head "down the stream was sent, / Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore" (Lycidas, 11. 62-63). For post-Orphic rites of sexual sacrifice, see Samuel Daniel, Delia, sonnet 8,...