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
Here, too, the choruses blend with the action, and are unsurpassed for melody, sweetness, and tenderness, proclaiming their author as the foremost lyrist of his nation.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel
"Before everything I am enamoured of thy blonde tresses," says one lyrist.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
The great master thereof in the early Renaissance, the lyrist, if I may use the word, of the fifteenth century, is of course Botticelli.
From Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee
