Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

An idea, of the sort that we have in mind, although of necessity readily available to imagination, is more general in connotation than most poetic or literary images, especially those appearing in lyric poems that seek to capture a moment of personal experience.

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 ''.

Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

But what is equally impressive is the delicacy and wonderful lyric quality of both the band and Mulligan's baritone sax in a fragile ballad like Bob Brookmeyer's arrangement of `` Django's Castle ''.

Finally, the prologue to Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, played on horn without the use of valves but equally suited to the alphorn, is a beautiful, inspired example of the lyric possibilities of natural harmonics.

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.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

The elegiac couplet is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic.

His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

* The lyric poet Bacchylides quoted / paraphrased Hesiod in a victory ode addressed to Hieron of Syracuse, commemorating the tyrant's win in the chariot race at the Pythian Games 470 BC, the attribution made with these words: " A man of Boeotia, Hesiod, minister of the Muses, spoke thus: ' He whom the immortals honour is attended also by the good report of men.

One definition of a hymn is "... a lyric poem, reverently and devotionally conceived, which is designed to be sung and which expresses the worshipper's attitude toward God or God's purposes in human life.

It most commonly is applied to a line in a poem or a lyric in a song.

Similarly, if a lyric uses words that the listener is unfamiliar with, they may be misheard as using more familiar terms.

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.

This is followed by several lyric prayers that expound upon God's mercy and kindness, and give thanks for the survival of the Jewish people through a history of exile and hardship.

A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation, science fiction is not often ( enough ) thought of as a genre related to lyric poetry.

The album was banned from sale at Wal-Mart, as in the " Love Is A Good Thing " lyric Wal-Mart is implicated ( by name ) of supplying guns to which children later gain access.

" Send in the Clowns " is performed in two completely different styles: dramatic and lyric.

The lyric style is the concert performance, and this style emphasizes the sweetness of the melody and the poetry of the lyrics.

" ( This lyric is a reference to Goldie and their spat over Björk.

I wouldn't hear from him for a couple of weeks, then he'd come around with the completed lyric ''.

* Richard I, Ja nuls om pres non dira sa razon ( Occitan version of lyric )

* Richard I, Ja nus hons pris ne dira sa reson ( French version of lyric, with English translation by James H. Donalson )

This wasn't written about Kenneth Williams per se, but, after I'd composed it and was playing it through, I realised the lyric sort of summed Kenneth up − I think I'd recently been reading his published Diaries and I had ended the song with the same words Williams had written in his diary before he died.

In 1914, at the start of the First World War, Novello wrote " Keep the Home Fires Burning ", a song that expressed the feelings of innumerable families sundered by World War I. Novello composed the music for the song to a lyric by the American Lena Guilbert-Ford, and it became a huge popular success, bringing Novello money and fame at the age of 21.

* Japanese — Alcoholic Kidz: " Pierrot " ( 2009 ); Aya Kamiki: " Pierrot " ( 2006 ); Berryz Kobo: " Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba " (" Fountain Plaza of My Confession " ; contains lyric " I am Pierrot "); Tanaka Koki of pop group KAT-TUN: " Pierrot ", from Break the Records: By You & For You ( 2009 ); Yellow Magic Orchestra: " Mad Pierrot ", from Yellow Magic Orchestra ( 1978 ).

* I Do ( Young Jeezy song ) Andre 3000 mentions in a lyric ' And maybe 2030 our baby, she ’ ll be nerdy make the whole club swoon '

The Roman love elegy of Tibullus, Propertius and Ovid ( Amores, Heroides ), with its focus on the poetic " I " and the expression of personal feeling, may be the thematic ancestor of much medieval, renaissance, Romantic and modern lyric poetry, but these works were composed in elegiac couplets, and so were not lyric poetry in the ancient sense.

The song has the distinction of being the first Beatles recording to be referenced by the group themselves: the second verse of Lennon's " I Am the Walrus ", released on Magical Mystery Tour at the end of 1967, contains the lyric " see how they fly, like Lucy in the sky, see how they run ...".

The song " La Fee Verte " by British rock band Kasabian contains the lyric " I see Lucy in the sky, Telling me I'm high.

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.

" " Adam's Song ," in turn, includes the lyric " I took my time, I hurried up, The choice was mine, I didn't think enough.

Sullivan had trouble setting one lyric in particular, " I have a song to sing-O!

* The Austin, Texas band Sound Team references Belshazzar with the lyric: " But I don't have to sleep at Belshazzar's house anymore / Gave up the center line " on the track " No More Birthdays " off their Movie Monster LP.

Davis and Durst would often offer suggestions for each other's lyrics ; a lyric written by Durst as " tootin ' on your bagpipe " was changed to " fagpipes " by Davis, who stated " I helped him bag on me better ".

:* The song " Don't Look Back in Anger " from ( What's the Story ) Morning Glory ( 1995 ) features a piano line near-identical to that of John Lennon's solo hit " Imagine ", as well as a bridge section instrumentally reminiscent of " Octopus's Garden " and featuring a Lennon quote in the lyric (' so I start a revolution from my bed ').

Henley responded ," Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention — and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor.

My Chemical Romance's song " Vampire Money " taken from their album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys released on 22 November 2010 features the lyric ' glimmer like Bolan in the morning sun ', referencing Marc Bolan.

One of the most intelligible pieces of lyric in the whole song is the oft-repeated line " Standing in the garden, waiting for the sun to shine ," which is reminiscent of a line from an earlier Beatles tune, " I Am the Walrus ", which contains the line " Sitting in an English garden, waiting for the sun.