"lyrist," appear only when the time is ripe for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)] Reference

I was born to be a lyrist, and I have always remained one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Since Sappho loved and sang, there has been no such national lyrist as Burns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

Live music was provided by an accomplished lyrist dressed in Greek slave's robes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Scout]

It is long since we have as good a lyrist; it will be long before we have his superior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncollected Prose] Reference

As the noble words of the Greek lyrist rolled with an indescribable gusto from the lips of Milton, it seemed to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

It would be difficult to find a finer lyrist among the mountains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

The greatest pastoral lyrist of this country is Winther (1796-1876).    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities] Reference

Holger Drachmann, in his capacity of lyrist, has also a strain of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Scandinavian Literature] Reference

Yet here, again, I must find fault with Campbell, splendid lyrist as he is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference

Although I turned aside and sought diligently, I could not find the shy lyrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

The Elizabethan lyrist is safe among lilies and cherries, roses, pearls, and snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children] Reference

And yet, as chosen lyrist of the Roman race, he cannot altogether refuse the call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Horace] Reference

The Parisian did not cease to be a Provençal; and the novelist was a lyrist still.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference

Shekhar Dhungel columnist and lyrist and Sajjan Pandey a social worker from California.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

In spite of his preoccupation with the exact value of oral words, he is not a singing lyrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference

The verse marks one of the highest reaches of a genius honored abroad as a world-great lyrist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

The lyrist who wished to be a butterfly, the lyrist who fled or flew to a lone vale at the hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference

He was a true lyrist, familiar both with the external life of Nature and the inner life of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times] Reference

Gradually the form of the one girl whom the lyrist loves emerges from this wealth of description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse] Reference

Shakespeare, -- and inferior to the simplest French lyrist of old time that ever wrote a "chanson d'amour.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference

Eric Mackay is a lyrist with a singing faculty and a novel metrical form such as few lyrists have at command.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Song of the Flag A National Ode] Reference

When my notes were made the little lyrist was putting his best foot forward, and was not high in the trees, so that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

The lyrist complains to Love, pities Love for her scorning, and threatens to go away with Love, who is on his side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of Place and Other Essays] Reference

In the same vein are various songs of Herrick, a lyrist whose verse is not usually congenial to the modern music-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

There is no mistaking the affectation of an urban lyrist, whose lovers masquerade as shepherds in the court of Louis XIV.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference

But how quickly were those feelings displaced by joy when he named to me the great national lyrist of France, the unequalled.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference

He was simply an extraordinarily gifted author, a perfect versifier, a wondrous lyrist, and a delicious raconteur, endowed with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Russian Short Stories] Reference

But those feelings were quickly displaced by joy, when he named to me the great national lyrist of France, the great Béranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II] Reference

Elsewhere special circumstances might increase the value; a female lyrist fetches 5000 denarii, a girl of remarkable attractions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate] Reference

A few minutes of hard climbing brought me near enough to get my glass on the little lyrist, and then I found it was only the house-wren!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

She goes on dancing or scolding, as the case may be, and the lyrist goes on boasting of his constancy, or suddenly renounces it for a day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of Place and Other Essays] Reference