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

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

"What are they?" one who knows Mr. Carman only as, say, a lyrist of spring or as a singer of the delights of vagabondia probably will ask in some wonder.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

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