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

William Caldwell Roscoe was at once lyrist, dramatist and critic, but failed to achieve greatness in any of these lines.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh

But no voice, save those of a few melodious brothers, cheered the lonely lyrist, who had sung on every mountain, and whose verse had flowed with every river.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

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