lyrist

[ US /ˈɫɪɹɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who writes the words for songs
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How To Use lyrist In A Sentence

  • The lyrist strikes the string; gay youths advance, The Odyssey of Homer
  • The ‘Pilgrim of Eternity’ is Byron and the ‘sweetest lyrist’ from wild Ierne is Thomas Moore.
  • He got the song penned by the well-known Tamil cinema lyrist Vairamuthu and the anthem cassette is played on every Monday and Friday morning.
  • As I write this, I am tempted to wish that, instead of having been a lyrist by birth, I could become one by conviction: a lyrist by my own choice. Jaroslav Seifert - Nobel Lecture
  • Robert, who has been favourably known for some years as one of our rising lyrists, committed suicide at his lodgings at Solentsea on Saturday evening last by shooting himself in the right temple with a revolver.
  • It is long since we have as good a lyrist; it will be long before we have his superior. Uncollected Prose
  • lyrist," appear only when the time is ripe for them. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
  • Live music was provided by an accomplished lyrist dressed in Greek slave's robes. Time Scout
  • Romanus, St. Romanos the Melodist the great ecclesiastical lyrist of the Greek Church, composed for it a hymn The Birth of the Virgin
  • But in the pity almost divine with which Hood sings her fate there is not only a spotless delicacy, there is also a morality as elevated as the heavenly mercy which the lyrist breathes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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