In the Metamorphoses, Ovid retells the story of love and loss with his usual grace and charm hear the passage in the original Latin and follow in English here. Later, he will deal with the violent end of Orpheus, who renounces the love of women in his sadness and is torn to pieces by angry women in a Bacchanalian fury. In the illustration, by John William Waterhouse, nymphs find his head and his lyre, which have floated to the island of Lesbos.
Lost love: Orpheus and Eurydice
