Lyrical Sentence Examples

In July he published his volume of lyrical poems called Underwoods.

Ludvig Adolf Bbdtcher (1793-1874) wrote a single volume of lyrical poems, which he gradually enlarged in succeeding editions.

His poem is rather lyrical than narrative, which may account for some obscurities in the connexion of thought; but his alphabetic scheme proves that he designed twenty-two stanzas, not sixty-six detached couplets.

Heidenstam also published interesting volumes of literary criticism, and he is a lyrical poet of very high attainment.

Between 1450 and 1530 there had already been founded in Spalato a small literary society, in which the Servian poets Marulich, Papalich, Martinich and others read their poetical compositions, mostly lyrical and religious songs.

From the works sinister opening motif through the lyrical second movement to the spirited final allegro, there is a refreshing sense of excitement.

As you can see, I can wax lyrical about Winchester Cathedral on purely architectural and historical grounds.

It was first published in lyrical ballads, with a few other poems in 1798.

They can make you laugh, lust or cry with lyrical dexterity such as I have genuinely never found anywhere else.

The bouncy, uplifting feel of the music for this song belies the somewhat downbeat lyrical content.

Diverse and lyrical, Rome is united by the love of food, fashion flair and football!

Okay, I'll leave the alliterative wordplay to the true lyrical geniuses.

The excellent lyrical poet Frans Mikael Franzen (q.v.; 1772-1847) and a belated academician Johan David Valerius (1776-1852), fill up the space between the Gustavian period and the domination of romantic ideas from Germany.

Lyrical poetry is by far the largest and the most interesting portion of it.

The poet Matthias Jochumsson has written several dramas, but their chief merits are lyrical.

Two of the finest works of this early period of the Servian literature of Ragusa are the poem Dervishiyada, written by the Ragusan nobleman Stepan Guchetich (1495-1525), rich in humour and satire, and the poem Yegyupka (" The Gipsy Woman "), written by Andreas Chubranovich (1500-1550), a goldsmith by profession and a very original and clever lyrical poet.

His own lyrical and satirical poems are without a rival in Servian literature.

His poems, which are essentially lyrical, have been collected in various volumes, including Five Books of Song (1894), In Palestine and other Poems (1898), Poems and Inscriptions(1901), and In the Heights (1905).

Having terrified the consumer, they follow up by painting a lyrical picture of organic agriculture.

Lucy Pitman-Wallace directs the UK premiere of this vigorous and lyrical translation, breathing new immediacy into Sophocles ' timeless parable.

Vocal range is very good and fairly emotive but I found in some places that the lyrical content was a little indistinct.

But they are also, simultaneously, intensely lyrical and moving, and capture moments of exquisite fragility and beauty.

It's a work which alternates beautifully lyrical and delicate passages with scenes of extreme violence and brutality.

These are all drawn with a keen eye and an almost lyrical style of writing.

Both are declamatory, extravagant in character, highly lyrical and immediately establish the soloist as a romantic protagonist.

The result is a kaleidoscope of vivid colors and some wonderfully lyrical writing.

Why not get them to wax lyrical about your product or service on video?

I tended to say Ja instead of yes or yeah and the way I talked became slightly more lyrical.

They do pizza right, honestly I can get lyrical about pizza.

Nor may we judge him as a lyrical poet by comparison with any subjective lyrist.

The initial theme [A] is rhythmic (marked marcato ), the second [B] more hymn-like and lyrical.

Few works capture this more ardently than Elgar's Second Symphony with its abundance of lyrical melody.

At the same time, the lyrical romanticism of Clark's work became outmoded.

You might also wish for larger drops of lyrical phrasing, at least to lubricate the singers.

Stoddart's Angling Songs is a selection of 57 lyrical poems on the joys of fishing.

Cliff Wright's tender illustrations complement the lyrical prose of Adele Geras.

So strict became the rules of French prosody that lyrical poetry was all but extinguished between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Will he have the families spitting lyrical venom or are hip-hop reinforcements required?

On Still, the only song in English, the lyrical theme is the inner workings of the human body.

There was much true poetry in the verse, and much sound sense and keen observation in the prose of these works; but the poetical feeling and lyrical facility of the one, and the more solid qualities of the other, seemed best employed when they were subservient to his rapid wit, and to the ingenious coruscations of his fancy.

The best of his lyrical work, excellent for finish and intense sincerity, is his Epistola to Emilio Arrieta, and had he chosen to dedicate himself to lyric poetry, he might possibly have ranked with the best of Spain's modern singers; as it is, he is a very considerable poet who affects the dramatic form.

Sometimes, too, when a great dramatic climax has given place to a lyrical anticlimax, retrospective moods, subtleties of emotion and crowning musical thoughts press in upon Wagner's mind with a closeness that determines every word; and thus not only is the whole third act of Tristan, as Wagner said when he was working at it, of " overwhelming tragic power," but Isolde's dying utterances (which occupy the last five minutes and are, of course, totally without action or dramatic tension) were not unlike fine poetry even before the music was written.

The next period is the meridian of his genius, the time of his greatest lyrical inspiration, which he himself associates with the peace and leisure secured to him by his Sabine farm.

He was "an excellent maker of songs," and his hymns are characterized by a lyrical tenderness which seems typically Franciscan.

Between 1300 and 1500, however, it is supposed that the Kjaempeviser, or Danish ballads, a large collection of about Soo epical and lyrical poems, were originally composed, and these form the most precious legacy of the Denmark of the middle ages, whether judged historically or poetically.

Their interest on the formal side is retrospective, but it is possible to find even in the persistent reiteration of medieval sentiment and methods, a fresh feeling for nature, and a lyrical quality of later timbre.

The misuse of the Eddic metaphors made the lyrical and epical poetry of the day hardly intelligible, and, to make matters worse, the language of the poets was mixed up with words of German and Danish origin.

His lyrical poetry was mainly the product of his exile, if we are to believe Ben Jonson, who told Drummond of Hawthornden that Donne "wrote all his best pieces ere he was 25 years old."

Faith, hope and boundless charity pervade the " Questions of Life," " Invocation," and " The Two Angels," and are exquisitely blended in " The Eternal Goodness," perhaps the most enduring of his lyrical poems. " We can do without a Church," he wrote in a letter;" we cannot do without God, and of Him we are sure."

Wennerberg was a most remarkable type of the lyrical, ardent Swedish aristocrat, full of the joy of life and the beauty of it.

A keen sense of lyrical content is merged with soaring vocals and acoustic guitar.

The reporter waxed lyrical; At morning and evening you may hear and see train wagons thundering along through these handsome sheds.

Her prose was quite lyrical, almost poetic in a way.

Modern wedding vows can be many things - funny, sentimental, customized, romantic, lyrical, or solemn.

However, the song was so subtle that it took me several levels to realize it was the same lyrical arrangement being played in pop, lounge, and dance beat styles.

The first winner of the show, Nick Lazzarini, is a California native. 23 years old and trained in jazz, lyrical, hip hop, ballet and modern, he won $100,000 and a lease on an NYC apartment.

Very few performers are skilled in jazz, lyrical, ballet, tap, swing, and salsa to an equal extent.

Praise dance can be any type of dance - hip hop, jazz, ballet, lyrical, modern, and interpretive movement.

Pair a jazz feather hat with a black tutu for ballet (instead of the bun accessory offered with the tutu), or a fiery red flamenco accessory on a white lyrical dance dress.

You will find many young Japanese who enjoy hip hop dancing, as well as more traditional yet relevant forms of dance like ballet and lyrical.

Goodwin Music Co. Country Music Lyrics & Chords is a website that not only provides lyrical information for country Christmas music, but also the instrumental chording information.

Lyrical jazz costumes are often floaty, feminine, and look like watercolors splashed across the fabric.

If you're doing a concert version of the ballet, or are interested in performing in a less classical venue, you might consider using ballet lyrical costuming.

Shakespeare's fairies, such as Ariel from The Tempest and all the Midsummer Night's Dream fairies are usually dressed in a simple, classic style, such as with ballet lyrical or woodland-themed costumes.

For competition, these groups often wear contemporary dance costumes, such as spandex unitards with intricate details, such as sequins or flowing lyrical dresses.

Praise, or lyrical and liturgical, dance costumes come in fewer styles than ballet or jazz costumes.

Once the basic type of music is chosen and the sender is sure that a musical greeting will be welcomed, it is time to browse for the best lyrical selection.

Coming in both black and tan, Capezio jazz dance shoes can be used for not only jazz class, but for lyrical dance as well.

The Smashing Pumpkins were a rock band popular in the 1990s that became famous for their signature guitar-heavy sound and Corgan's lyrical prowess.

While the record label was distinctly reluctant to release the album, the refined melodies combined with Reznor's lyrical vitriol and musical prowess ensured the album sold well in underground musical circles.

Notably, too, Broken was more aggressive and darker in both musical and lyrical content than PHM.

Come on, if you're going to claim to have a "lyrical genius" in your band, you're going to have to come with more than that.

The turning point in the Pumpkins discography was Adore, an album of dark, lyrical ballads filled with emotion.

So much more than some guy who once worked with Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazelwood is one of the last great troubadours of rock music and should be thought of in the company of dark, broody, lyrical greats like Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash.

The band's music was labeled "alternative rock", more specifically grunge, a genre that presented a mix of punk, metal, and indie rock ideals, sounds, and lyrical choices.

The songs quick lyrical slurring and multiple alliterations can make it difficult to catch the lyrics with your own ears.

Music critics often refer to him as being one of the most lyrical rappers ever in the genre.

Metro Lyrics - Metro Lyrics have a complete collection of all of Eminem's lyrics, plus a collection of Eminem press coverage, so you can follow the stories of his lyrical controversies.

He faced a great deal of difficulty breaking into the scene as a white MC, but eventually gained a reputation for his lyrical abilities.

Part of the popularity of the album was driven by heavy news coverage of controversy over the lyrical content.

While many fans balked at the exclusion of the three lyrical songs, the move was deliberate.

Thanks to its lyrical content - Franklin demands that a man better think about what he's trying to do and repeats "freedom" over and over in the chorus - the song was embraced by the burgeoning feminist movement of the time.

Gospel music runs the gamut from hymns to Christian rock songs, and the lyrical content varies as such.

Unlike previous rap records, which were essentially party records, The Message featured a slow beat so that the lyrical stories of inner city life were prominent.

The famous Star Trek orchestral opening was replaced with the lyrical ballad "Where My Heart Will Take Me".

Her 'significant other' was lyrical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, with whom she had eloped when she was sixteen.

So upset by the use of the lyrical melody, as well as the dramatic change in style of the credits, some Star Trek fans began an online petition demanding that the Star Trek Enterprise theme song be removed altogether.

Tolkien expressed his devotion to language studies by developing and creating lyrical languages for his novels.

His lyrical poems are wanting in spontaneity and individuality, but many of them possess a simple, orderly charm, as of an English country lane.

Wasilewski (1814-1846), the author of many popular songs; and Holowinski, archbishop of Mogilev (1807-1855), author of religious poems. The style of poetry in vogue in the Polish parts of Europe at the present time is chiefly lyrical.

We can only suppose that the lyre in the hands of the epic poet or reciter was in reality a piece of convention, a " survival " from the stage in which narrative poetry had a lyrical character.

The other leading verse-writers were Karl Vilhelm Bottiger (1807-1878), the son-in-law and biographer of Tegner, who, in addition to his lyrical poetry, chiefly of the sentimental kind, wrote an admirable series of monographs on Swedish men of letters; Johan Borjesson (1790-1866), the last of the Phosphorists, author of various romantic dramas; Vilhelm August Detlof von Braun (1813-1860), a humorous lyrist; " Talis Qualis," whose real name was Karl Vilhelm August Strandberg (1818-1877); Oscar Patrick Sturzen-Becker (181'- 1869), better known as " Orvar Odd," a lyrical poet who was also the author of a series of amusing sketches of everyday life; and August Teodor Blanche (1811-1868), the popular dramatist.

Snoilsky was prominent for the richness of his lyrical style, his cosmopolitan interests and his great width of culture.

He published his Lyrical Poems in 1876; New Lyrical Poems in 1880; Songs and Sketches in 1885.

During the age of Anne various Augustan poets in whom the lyrical faculty was slight, from Congreve and Richard Duke down to Ambrose Philips and William Somerville, essayed the epistle with more or less success, and it was employed by Gay for several exercises in his elegant persiflage.

It revived in the charming naivete of Cowper's lyrical letters in octosyllabics to his friends, such as William Bull and Lady Austin (1782).

From this sprang the Lyrical Ballads, to which Coleridge contributed The Ancient Mariner, the Nightingale and two scenes from Osorio, and after much cogitation the book was published in 1798 at Bristol by Cottle, to whose reminiscences, often indulging too much in detail, we owe the account of this remarkable time.

A second edition of the Lyrical Ballads in 1800 included another poem by Coleridge - Love, to which subsequently the sub-title was given of An Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie.

It is curious to note that no heroic songs are met with in the cancioneiros; they are all with one exception purely lyrical in form and tone.

What he achieved for the modern world was not merely to bequeath to his Italian imitators masterpieces of lyrical art unrivalled for perfection of workmanship, but also, and far more, to open out for Europe a new sphere of mental activity.

Besides these lyrical compositions are the semi-epical or allegorical Trionfi - Triumphs of Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time and Divinity, written in terza rima of smooth and limpid quality.

The lyrical and epic poetry of the time follows somewhat the same lines, but with certain notable differences.

Aaron wrote the Passion, in 10,000 verses (1802; often reprinted); the lyrical romances of Piram Tisbe (1808) and Sofronim si Hdriti (1821); and the humorous Leonat .i Dorofata, a satire on bad women and on drunken husbands, now a chapbook.

Vacarescu, there are -odes, hymns, patriotic poems, ballads, lyrical and didactic poems, some of them among the most beautiful in the language.

There he gathered the materials for his lyrical poems " Macedonele " and " Florile Bosforului ?

Like *erbanescu, Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890), the greatest of Rumanian lyrical poets (see Alecsandri),.

His fame rests on his lyrical poetry alone, which retains some of the charm of popular poetry.

Among his other lyrical volumes, of dates earlier than the Civil War, were Lays of my Home (1843), Voices of Freedom (1846), Songs of Labor (1850), The Chapel of the Hermits (1853), The Panorama (1856), Home Ballads (1860).

His music generally is very lyrical, with memorable melodies in a variety of styles.

A student of sitar maestro Ustad Vilayat Khan, Dharambir maintains the lyrical touch of his Ustad's style.

In some ways, lyrical jazz costumes mimic the lines and feel of ballet costumes.

Here are a few examples from LeosDancewear.com to demonstrate the soft lines and pastel colors often found in lyrical attire.

His principal work is a series of commentaries on five of the lyrical anthologies included in the miscellaneous Nikaya.

It is true that we have some noble resounding echoes in the lyrical passages lx.-lxii.

Of considerable merit are also the sacred lyrical melodies of Paul Radai in his Lelki hodolds (Spiritual Homage), published at Debreczen in 1715.

The Mesek of Augustus Greguss (1878), a collection of verse " Fables," belonging to the school of Gay, partake more of a didactic than lyrical nature.

He had not only become reconciled to the new order of things, but was moved by his intimate friendship with Maecenas to aid in raising the world to sympathy with the imperial rule through the medium of his lyrical inspiration, as Virgil had through the glory of his epic art.

The lyrical metres of Plautus are wonderfully varied, and the textual critic does well not to attempt to limit the possibilities of original metrical combinations and developments in the Roman comedian.

If we ask what that time provided to stir the fancy and move the mood of imaginative reflection, it is in the lyrical poems of Horace that we shall find the most varied and trustworthy answer.

His son, Henry John Patmore (1860-1883), left a number of poems posthumously printed at Mr Daniell's Oxford Press, which show an unmistakable lyrical quality.

But the best of these old dramatic authors was a priest of Viborg, Justesen Ranch (1539-1607), who wrote Kong Salomons Hylding (" The Crowning of King Solomon ") (1585), Samsons Faengsel (" The Imprisonment of Samson "), which includes lyrical passages which have given it claims to be considered the first Danish opera, and a farce, Karrig Niding (" The Miserly Miscreant ").

Since Ewald no one had written Danish lyrical verse so exquisitely as Schack von Staffeldt, and the depth and scientific precision of his thought won him a title which he has preserved, of being the first philosophic poet of Denmark.

It contains lyrical and ballad poetry, specimens of early exegesis and commentary, lives of the saints, collections of edifying anecdotes and of the now well-known Jatakas or Birth Stories.

His genuine simplicity as a lyrical writer is shown by the fact that several of his shorter pieces have passed into popular song.

As generally able writers of lyrical poetry during the earlier part of this period may be mentioned among others Francis Csaszar, Joseph Szekacs and Andrew Kunoss-also Lewis Szakal and Alexander Vachott, whose songs and romances are of an artless and simple character, and the sacred lyricist Bela Tarkanyi.

But the poetry of the latter half of the Augustan age destined to survive did not follow the lines either of lyrical or of dramatic art marked out by Horace.

The frank bearing, fortitude and self-sacrificing heroism of the best type of the soldierly character find expression in the persons of Achilles, Telamon and Eurypylus; and a dignified and passionate tenderness of feeling makes itself heard in the lyrical utterances of Cassandra and Andromache.

It gave motives to art, to lyrical, epic and dramatic poetry.'

Of this school the acknowledged head and founder was Wordsworth, and the tenets it professed are those laid down by the poet himself in the famous preface to the edition of The Lyrical Ballads which he published in 1800.

The lofty symbolism of his prose is frequently obscure, but his lyrical verses are distinguished for their rapturous ecstasy and beauty of expression.

The results of this enthusiasm and this labour of the artist appeared in the volume of Poems, chiefly Lyrical, published in 1830.

He feels the increasing languor of the time as well as the languor of advancing years, and seeks to encourage younger men to take up the role of lyrical poetry, while he devotes himself to the contemplation of the true art of living.

As Cicero tones down his oratory in his moral treatises, so Horace tones down the fervour of his lyrical utterances in his Epistles, and thus produces a style combining the ease of the best epistolary style with the grace and concentration of poetry - the style, as it has been called, of "idealized common sense," that of the urbanus and cultivated man of the world who is also in his hours of inspiration a genuine poet.

As lyrical poets may also be mentioned Jachowicz; Jaskowski, author of a fine poem, The Beginning of Winter; Edmund.

Besides his lyrical and satirical poems, he contributed many of the finest compositions to the liturgy (some of them with the acrostic "Shelomoh ha-gaton"), which are widely different from the artificial manner of the earlier payyetanim.

Hans Sthen, a lyrical poet, wrote a morality entitled Kortvending (" Change of Fortune "), which is really a collection of monologues to be delivered by students.

His Winter Psalter (1689), and the so-called Kingo's Psalter (1699), contained brilliant examples of lyrical writing, and an employment of language at once original and national.

In 1764 Moratin published a collection of pieces, chiefly lyrical, under the title of El Poeta, and in 1765 a short didactic poem on the chase (Diana 0 arte de la caza).

During the latter part of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th two poets of a higher order appeared in Valentine Balassa, the earliest Magyar lyrical writer, and his contemporary John Rimay, whose poems are of a contemplative and pleasing character.

In his absent-minded way Tennyson was very apt to mislay objects; in earlier life he had lost the MS. of Poems, chiefly Lyrical, and had been obliged to restore the whole from scraps and memory.

In the last ten years of his life Horace resumed his lyrical function for a time, under pressure of the imperial command, and produced some of the most exquisite and mature products of his art.

His three diwans (1479-1491) contain his lyrical poems and odes; among his prose writings the chief is his Baharistan (" Spring-garden") (1487); and his collection of romantic poems, Haft Aurang (" Seven Thrones"), contains the Salaman wa Absal and his Yusuf wa Zalikha (Joseph and Potiphar's wife).

After a struggling youth of great poverty, he published, in 1807-1809, a translation of Ossian; in 181 4 a volume of lyrical poems; and in 1817 he attracted considerable attention by his descriptive poem of The Tour in Jutland.

They contain nothing but meditative lyrical pieces, almost any one of which is typical of the whole, though there is considerable variation of merit.

There is little in Dunbar which may be called lyrical, and little of the dramatic. His Interlud of the Droichis [Dwarf's] part of the Play, one of the pieces attributed to him, is supposed to be a fragment of a dramatic composition.

Most of Nasir's lyrical poems - were composed in his retirement, and their chief topics are - an enthusiastic praise of `Ali, his descendants, and Mostansir in particular; passionate outcries against Khorasan and its rulers, who had driven him from house and home; the highest satisfaction with the quiet solitude of Yumgan; and utter despondency again in seeing himself despised by his former associates and for ever excluded from participation in the glorious contest of life.

Pedro Paz Soldan was a classical scholar who published three volumes of poems. Carlos Augusto Salaverry is known as one of Peru's best lyrical poets, and Luis Benjamin Cisneros for his two novels, Julia and Edgardo.

The composition of didactic, lyrical and elegiac poetry also was the accomplishment and pastime of an educated dilettante class, the only extant specimens of any interest being some of the Silvae of Statius.

What Petofi had done for lyrical he did for epic poetry.

In the Psalms corresponding phrases (My, Thy, His anointed) occur nine times, to which may be added the lyrical passages I Sam.

In his translation he discarded the native Saturnian metre, and adopted the iambic, trochaic and cretic metres, to which Latin more easily adapted itself than either to the hexameter or to the lyrical measures of a later time.

The Russian military historians in so far as they submit to claims of logic must admit that conclusion, and in spite of their lyrical rhapsodies about valor, devotion, and so forth, must reluctantly admit that the French retreat from Moscow was a series of victories for Napoleon and defeats for Kutuzov.