lyrist

Example Sentences

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Famously, Orfeo, a master poet, singer and lyrist, convincingly serenades Caronte, followed by Pluto, lord of the underworld, begging that love beat death, that his wife go home with him across the river.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2018

A lyrist playing to a herd of cows masticating their own ignorance, Bella often thought.

From The New Yorker • May 1, 2017

We can, with comparative ease, recognise Burns himself in his works; for Burns is a lyrist, pouring out his own feelings in song, often alluding to himself, and generally under personal agitation when he writes.

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David

A rain of aristocratic poems followed, for a Spaniard is a lyrist born, and turns from prose to verse as easily as he changes his cuffs.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

Ramon Zambrana, who, by-the-way, married the poetess Do�a Luisa Perez de Monte de Oca, is a lyrist of the first rank.

From Cuba Past and Present by Davey, Richard