...supreme effect: 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. ‘I'he motif of...

...that have don? What could the Muse her self that Orpheus bore, The Muse hen self, for her inchanting son Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar, His goany visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shone. [56-63] In a pioneering...

...Orpheus. After chastising the nymphs for their absence from the scene of King's death, Milton goes on: What could the muse herself that Orpheus bore. The...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore. (38-63) The allusion here is to an episode which haunted Milton's imagination for the rest of his life,...

...high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there — for what could that have done! What could the Muse herself...son, Whom Universal nature did lament, When by the tour that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus no...

...that have don? 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 shoar. (lines 50-63) In...

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...on the shagy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: Ay me, I fondly dream! Had ye been there—for what could that have done?...sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly...

...Orpheus is endorsed by classical tradition. 65 As Milton, echoing Ovid and Virgil, puts it in Lycidas: ‘His gory visage down the stream was sent, / Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore' (61—3). Orpheus' head and lyre, swept away by the Hebrus, are washed up on the shores of Lesbos,...

...high,' Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream:' Ay me, I fondly dream!' Had ye been there. . . for what could that have done? What could the muse herself...her enchanting son Whom universal nature did lament, 6o When by the rout that made the hideous roar,' His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the...