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Meanings of lyric in English

Portuguese
texto
Catalan
lletra
Spanish
letra

The text of a popular song or musical-comedy number.

        texto
        Portuguese
        lírico

        Used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range.

              lírico
              Catalan
              poema líric

              A short poem of songlike quality.

                    poema líric

                    Expressing deep emotion.

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                          Examples for "lyric poem"
                          Examples for "lyric poem"
                          1
                          The lyric poem is the musical expression of mental emotions by language.
                          Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
                          2
                          The figure on the page opposite is a beautiful lyric poem.
                          Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts / Descriptive Not...
                          3
                          No Shakespearian drama satisfies like a lyric poem of Heine.
                          The book of disquiet
                          4
                          What he said was a lyric poem, but, as usual, he didn't know it.
                          Tell England / A Study in a Generation
                          5
                          Take the short lyric poem known as the sonnet.
                          The Irish Times
                          Usage of lyric in English
                          1
                          The race should in course of time produce many brilliant lyric poets.
                          The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
                          2
                          Blatchford Sarnemington was himself, and these words were in effect a lyric.
                          The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
                          3
                          The English lyric and elegiac poets had a wonderful influence in Germany.
                          The Interdependence of Literature
                          4
                          And to her everything in the venerable city teemed with unexpressed lyric.
                          The Lure of the Mask
                          5
                          He begins to collect what the Germans have accomplished in lyric poetry.
                          Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life
                          6
                          Now hear how the lyric treats it, in these lines of Dekker-
                          On the Art of Writing / Lectures delivered in the University of ...
                          7
                          That is too good a lyric to be written by a 20-year-old.
                          The Guardian
                          8
                          Over his grave in Westminster Abbey was chanted Mrs. Browning's touching lyric:-
                          Halleck's New English Literature
                          9
                          But of lyric writers pure and simple there is scarcely a trace.
                          Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
                          10
                          Amusing lyric and a deeper vocal than we're used to from Bob.
                          The Guardian
                          11
                          Schubert, alone of all the composers, resembles him in his lyric prodigality.
                          Chopin : the Man and His Music
                          12
                          In a few instances, however, Jonson strikes the true lyric note delightfully.
                          A History of English Literature
                          13
                          In journalism and in lyric writing language is always employed under constraint.
                          The South African
                          14
                          We have been considering the typical qualities and forms of lyric poetry.
                          A Study of Poetry
                          15
                          I read in a magazine about a lyric in Nirvana's Heart-Shaped Box.
                          The Guardian
                          16
                          But of the masterpieces of lyric poetry only a few fragments remain.
                          Mosaics of Grecian History
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                          Spanish
                          letra
                          Lyric through the time
                          Lyric across language varieties
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