orpheus-music

Updated: June 21, 2025

So, as you would have done, I fain would do In poorer fashion. Ah, how oft I try, Try to fulfil your wishes, till at length The scent of those dead roses steals my strength. As to our other guests, to what company would not Sir Alfred Lyall have added that touch of something provocative and challenging which draws men and women after it, like an Orpheus-music?

Mrs. Humphry Ward - A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2