# Thamyris

Author: Trevelyan, R. C. (Robert Calverley), 1872-1951

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70316

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Thamyris+Trevelyan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There is an old Teutonic legend that every year, upon All Souls’ Day, the archangel Raphael is sent down to the classical ward of Hell, where the dispossessed deities of heathendom are confined, with a summons for the nine Muses to appear and give a command performance before the throne of Jehovah and the assembled Host of Heaven. So the poor embarrassed ladies, ushered before that critical and unsympathetic audience, reluctantly tune their lyres, and begin some ancient Hellenic chant, some ode, it may be, that they had once sung in the feasting-hall of Olympus, or at the marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia. At first their strange pagan minstrelsy seems harsh and unpleasing to blessed ears, a...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thamyris-70316/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thamyris-70316/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thamyris-70316/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thamyris-70316/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thamyris-70316/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/thamyris-70316/chapters/6/index.md)