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

Different, indeed, is the case when we come to consider Ramsay as a song-writer and a lyrist.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

It is no task to be confided to an amateur play-maker, to a mere lyrist, ignorant of the art of the theater.

From A Book About the Theater by Matthews, Brander

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