Lyric

(noun.) a short poem of songlike quality.

(noun.) the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; 'his compositions always started with the lyrics'; 'he wrote both words and music'; 'the song uses colloquial language'.

(verb.) write lyrics for (a song).

(adj.) expressing deep emotion; 'the dancer's lyrical performance' .

(adj.) used of a singer or singing voice that is light in volume and modest in range; 'a lyric soprano' .

(adj.) of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); 'lyric poetry' .

(adj.) relating to or being musical drama; 'the lyric stage' .

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• Take the words of a lyric for what they say, and they say nothing most of the time. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Dramatic and lyric poetry, like every other branch of Greek literature, was falling under the power of rhetoric. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The language was there, visible, but untranslatable--a poem, a fervid lyric, in an unknown tongue. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He also declares that if his life were to be twice as long he would have no time to read the lyric poets. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• In the lyric poet the control is often so delicate that the hearer lives over again the finely shaded mood of the poet. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In addition, there were also poems of more homely character, love songs, war lyrics, and the like. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Taking up a little gilt volume, I found it to contain a selection of lyrics. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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