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adjective

Lyrical, Lyric adj.

Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp.

Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, Appropriate for song; suitable for or suggestive of singing; of music or poetry.

Expressing deep personal emotion; said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet; as, the dancer's lyrical performance. "Sweet lyric song."

Synonyms: lyric.

noun

Lyric n.

A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

A composer of lyric poems. (R.)

A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; used chiefly in the plural.

pl. The words of a song.

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Etymology of 'Lyric'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lyric" Quotes from Famous Books

... half-humorously disclaims the capacity for lofty themes, but, especially as he grows older and more philosophic, and perhaps less lyric, half-seriously attributes whatever he does to persevering ...

— Horace and His Influence • Grant Showerman

... were performing a little rite. Her eyes filled with tears. "Harboro!" she cried, "do you need to ask me that?" Her fingers sought his face and traveled with ineffable tenderness from line to line. It was as if she were playing a little love-lyric of her own upon a beautiful harp. And then she fell upon his breast and pressed her cheek to his. "Harboro!" she cried again. She had seen only the ...

— Children of the Desert • Louis Dodge

... is the index of the soul. The voice of the two Pitts was the same voice, we have been told—a deep, rich, cultivated lyric-barytone. It was a trained voice, a voice that came from a full column of air, that never broke into a screech, rasping the throat of the speaker and the ear of the listener. It was the natural voice carefully developed by right use. The power of Pitt ...

— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard

... of epic should be included the half descriptive, half lyric poems which were popular among the English, dealing chiefly with nature, the seasons of the year, etc. There belong also to this division numerous didactic poems in which a prosaic content is dressed up in poetic form, such as compendiums of physics, ...

— An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times • Thomas Hill Green

... to many of our readers the name which stands at the head of this sketch is unknown, and that those who recognize it will only know it as that of the author of the well-known lines upon the death of Sir John Moore—a lyric of such surpassing beauty, that so high a judge as Lord Byron considered it the perfection of English lyrical poetry, preferring it before Coleridge's lines on Switzerland—Campbell's Hohenlinden—and the finest of Moore's Irish melodies, which ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various

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