A book of Greek Fairy Tales, chiefly based upon the myths of Pindar.
The following is the book Orpheus with His Lute (1909?) by Winifred Margaret Lambart Hutchinson (1868-1936). More information.
Part I
The Making of a Minstrel
- The Well in the Forest
- The Dawn of the World
- The Coming of Zeus
- Prometheus the Firebringer
- Deucalion’s Flood
- How Apollo Came to Delphi
- The Mother and the Maid
- Prince Cadmus of Phoenicia
- The God of the Ivy Crown
- Prometheus Unbound
Part II
Orpheus and Eurydice
- Farewell to the Forest
- In the House of Apollo
- The Bridal of Weeping Torches
- Orpheus in the Underworld
- The Perfect Song
Source of the text, etc.
The scanned book is available on Archive.org. I at LatinFromScratch.com have proofread, edited, etc., the OCR version. Minor changes have been made, but, in general, every spelling, word, sentence, paragraph, etc., is as in the original (however, most changes are about having more paragraphs for a more effortless reading experience, and occasionally some old-fashioned spellings such as to-morrow → tomorrow).
I’m editing and publishing it. It’s not a light task, so please feel free to contribute to my work! (More on the way!, so help me stay motivated to keep publishing these!)
Orpheus with his lute made trees
And the mountain-tops that freeze
Bow themselves when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.Every thing that heard him play,
William Shakespeare
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads and then lay by.
In sweet Music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.