Motif
Mourning musician whose song moves nature
mourning_musician_whose_song_moves_nature
A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition family, within the sub-family Grief Imagery and Song. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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roman
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV THE METAMORPHOSES. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 297-312 confidence: high
Orpheus, in sorrow, repairs to mountain solitudes; trees gather around him at the sound of his lyre, including the pine linked to Atys and the cypress linked to Cyparissus.
In sorrow, Orpheus goes to the mountains, and trees flock around him at the sound of his lyre.
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