Thus the copywriter in the world of the space merchants is the person who in earlier ages might have been a lyric poet, the person `` capable of putting together words that stir and move and sing ''.

After a close reading of the Thesmophoriazousae, the historian Jane McIntosh Snyder observed that Agathon's costume was almost identical to that of the famous lyric poet Anacreon, as he is portrayed in early 5th-century vase-paintings.

Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

Alexandrian scholars numbered him in their canonic nine ( one lyric poet per Muse ).

The grammarian Athenaeus quoted some verses about perfumed ointments to prove just how unwarlike Alcaeus could be and he quoted his description of the armour adorning the walls of his house as proof that he could be unusually warlike for a lyric poet.

Euripides was also a great lyric poet.

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

) May calls Oxford's 16 canonical poems the ' output of a competent, fairly experimental poet working in the established modes of mid-century lyric verse.

* Sappho's countryman and contemporary, the lyric poet Alcaeus, paraphrased a section of Works and Days ( 582 – 88 ), recasting it in lyric meter and Lesbian dialect.

The artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted a scene showing Ictinus together with the lyric poet Pindar.

* 1934 – John Wieners, American lyric poet ( d. 2002 )

* " Her stories and novels are humanistic, while her deep concern for male-female ( even human-alien ) harmony ran counter to the developing segregate-the-sexes drive amongst feminist writers ; What her work brought to the genre was a blend of lyricism and inventiveness, as if some lyric poet had rewritten a number of clever SF standards and then passed them on to a psychoanalyst for final polish.

The ancient Greek lyric poet Pindar records the victories of several athletes in his Victory Odes, and two inscribed stelae recently excavated from the Lykaian hippodrome provide information about the events, participants, and winners at the games.

* 1902 – Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian lyric poet ( d. 1943 )

May describes Oxford as a " competent, fairly experimental poet working in the established modes of mid-century lyric verse " and his poetry as " examples of the standard varieties of mid-Elizabethan amorous lyric ".

Sappho (; Attic Greek, Aeolic Greek ) was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos.

In 1561 Luis de León, a Spanish lyric poet and an Augustinian friar, translated the Song of Songs into Spanish for his cousin, Isabel Osorio, a nun who could not read the Latin text, and wrote an accompanying commentary.

Quite early in his career he began to distinguish himself as a lyric poet, with the three successive volumes of his Heather Blossoms ( 1845-1854 ).

* January 8 – Paul Verlaine, French lyric poet ( b. 1844 )

** Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyric poet ( d. 1925 )

* 469 BC — death of Simonides of Ceos, Greek lyric poet

* Stesichorus of Sicily, lyric poet ( c. 640 BC – 555 BC )

It appears likely that Sappho's poetry was largely lost through action of the same indiscriminate forces of cultural change that have left us such paltry remains of all nine canonical Greek lyric poets, of whom only Pindar ( whose works alone survive in a manuscript tradition ) and Bacchylides ( our knowledge of whom we owe to a single dramatic papyrus find ) have fared much better.

Bacchylides (; ) ( 5th century BC ) was a Greek lyric poet.

They were arranged in nine ' books ', exemplifying the following genres ( Bacchylides in fact composed in a greater variety of genres than any of the other lyric poets who comprise the canonic nine, with the exception of Pindar, who composed in ten ):

The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of nine lyric poets, along with Bacchylides ( his nephew ) and Pindar ( reputedly a bitter rival ).

Both Bacchylides and Pindar benefited from his innovative approach to lyric poetry and he was more involved than either of them in the major events and personalities of their times.

He is known to have written on Greek lyric poets, notably Bacchylides and Pindar, and on drama ; the better part of the Pindar and Sophocles scholia originated with Didymus.

According to most ancient sources, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets ( Ibycus, Bacchylides ) Plisthenides ( son of Plisthenes ) is used as an alternative name for Atreus himself.

The Greeks distinguished, however, between lyric monody ( e. g. Sappho, Anacreon ) and choral lyric ( e. g. Pindar, Bacchylides ).

In the classical period Kea ( Ceos ) was the home of Simonides and of his nephew Bacchylides, both ancient Greek lyric poets, and the Sophist Prodicus, and the physician Erasistratus.

542 ), quoted in Plato's dialogue, the Protagoras, and reconstructed here according to a recent interpretation, making it the only lyric poem of Simonides that survives intact:

Elegy has been described as " a variation upon the heroic hexameter, in the direction of lyric poetry ," and, in Mimnermus, this takes the form of a variation on Homer, as appears for example in Fragment 1, quoted below, about which one modern scholar had this to say "

* Demoniac quoted the lyric " Hatred is purity, weakness is disease " from Fear's " Foreign Policy " in the song " Hatred Is Purity ".

* Pindar: The great lyric poet of Boeotia is not mentioned here by name but one of his famous verses is absurdly quoted out of context in line 308

The second subject of the piece is quoted from the middle section of Isaac Nathan's arrangement of " O Weep for Those that Wept on Babel's Stream ", a lyric which was penned by Lord Byron in a collection called Hebrew Melodies ( which also included the famous poem " She Walks in Beauty ").

A part of a lyric from the song, " it's better to burn out than to fade away ," became infamous after being quoted in Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide note.

On Capp's exit, Lennon sang an impromptu version of his Ballad of John and Yoko song with a slightly revised, but nonetheless prophetic lyric: " Christ, you know it ain't easy / You know how hard it can be / The way things are goin ' / They're gonna crucify Capp!

* Bruce Haack's 1982 single " Party Machine " featured the lyric, " Low low low like Kurtis Blow / Down down down like James Brown.

The lyric goes " Up on the catwalk, and you dress in waistcoats / And got brillantino, and friends of Kim Philby.

Lewis Song " from the album Albertine, which is heavily indebted to Lewis's works, including the lyric " If I find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy / I can only conclude that I was not made for here.

American concert and stage performers will often fail to " breathe " and / or " voice " between the two fricatives, leading audiences familiar with British slang to hear " Don't you love arse ?," misinterpreting the lyric or at the least perceiving an unintended double entendre.

Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the song designed it as a pastiche of " The Carioca " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ) and " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), and the lyric communicates its fake origin: " It was written by a Latin / A gondolier who sat in / his home out in Brooklyn / and gazed at the stars.

* 2011-Alternative music band They Might Be Giants briefly referred to him in the song ″ Can't Keep Johnny Down ″ from their album Join Us, in the following lyric: " Some dude / Hitting golf balls on the moon / Bathroom in his pants / And he thinks he's better than me ..."

It is more a methodological approach to the question than a theory ; it asks not from where the content or form of the lyric came but rather in what situation / circumstances did it arise.

Atlanta based " flower punk " rock band the Black Lips recorded a song on their 2009 album 200 Million Thousand called " Big Black Baby Jesus of Today " which features the lyric " You can't be the Jack Johnson of Today / Big Black Baby Jesus on the way.

* The Jimmy Van Heusen / Sammy Cahn song " Come Dance with Me " ( popularized by Frank Sinatra ) includes the lyric " what an evening for some Terpsichore.

Chorus lyric: Balance is my thing / The snow, wind and rain / Must come

* Reunion's " Life Is A Rock ( But the Radio Rolled Me )" ( 1974 ) – Changed audio lyric to " Life is a rock / WLS rolled me ".

* The Pointer Sisters " Fire " ( 1979 ) – Changed audio lyric to " I'm riding in your car / you turn on W-L-S ."

As Lennon and McCartney were known to do at the time, a substitute working lyric, titled " Scrambled Eggs " ( the working opening verse was " Scrambled Eggs / Oh, my baby how I love your legs "), was used for the song until something more suitable was written.

After the death of Richard IV and Edmund's older brother, he is briefly King of England ; a lyric one of the closing credits for Blackadder II describes him as " a king / Although for only thirty seconds ".

Bruce lifted the two lines of the above lyric from the opening voice-over by Gregory Peck in the 1945 movie ' Valley of Decision ' set in a Pennsylvania steel town http :// en. wikipedia. org / wiki / The_Valley_of_Decision