A short poem of songlike quality.
Poem in the style of song lyrics and/or meant to be set to music.
1The lyric poem is the musical expression of mental emotions by language.
2The figure on the page opposite is a beautiful lyric poem.
3No Shakespearian drama satisfies like a lyric poem of Heine.
4What he said was a lyric poem, but, as usual, he didn't know it.
5Take the short lyric poem known as the sonnet.
6Tiberius wrote a lyric poem and some Greek verses.
7The student's ability to analyse a lyric poem should be tested by frequent written exercises.
8In a sense, what McKee has done is write an epic lyric poem of her own.
9In fact, the whole scene is here idealized; It is like a lyric poem, (Kugler's Handbook, 2d edit.)
10Older than Beowulf is the lyric poem of Widsith, which has some historical interest as depicting the doings of kings, princes and warriors.
11His songs are his best things; they really are songs, not merely lyric poems.
12I have felt this lately, in reading his lyric poems.
13Human beings keep diaries for as many different reasons as they write lyric poems.
14Title: Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School
15The judgment that led Catullus to place his lyric poems in the foreground was right.
16Both are lyric poems in the form of plays.
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