A person who writes the words for songs.
1A merry heart goes all the day; the lyrist's never grew weary.
2The lyrist's measur'd beat, the wrought-out temple's grace-columnand polish'd arch forgot?
3The Elizabethan lyrist is safe among lilies and cherries, roses, pearls, and snow.
4No water-organs, flute-player, lyrist, cymbal or harp-playing woman is allowed.
5Him too, never celebrated by any other tongue, I the Roman lyrist first made known.
6The Parisian did not cease to be a Provençal; and the novelist was a lyrist still.
7The little encore song, which generally appeared anonymously, was the opening wedge for the American lyrist.
8Anacreon was a lyrist of the first order.
9As a lyrist Scott especially excelled, and as a novelist he takes rank among the foremost.
10The classic lyrist and the classic flower.
11As lyrist, all is congruous and enthralling.
12Buddy de Sylva, lyrist to Al Jolson and 100 million others is collector of first editions in non-working hours.
13Love-the love of feudal chivalry-patriotism ,andreligion were the themes that employed the mediaeval lyrist in whatever country he sang.
14There is no mistaking the affectation of an urban lyrist, whose lovers masquerade as shepherds in the court of Louis XIV.
15The greatest pastoral lyrist of this country is Winther (1796-1876).
16For a young writer can gain more from the study of a literary poet than from the study of a lyrist.