1. orpheus - Noun
2. Orpheus - Proper noun
The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMiserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last. Cyril Connolly
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done. Thomas Carlyle
Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door. Zooey Deschanel
It is a conjunction of images I have always loved in his Sonnets to Orpheus and this work is, in a way, a kind of eye which is reflecting images endlessly. Anish Kapoor
But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. John Milton
A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared. Rainer Maria Rilke