Sentence examples for brief lyrics from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, Yeats was beginning to write: his first publication, two brief lyrics, appeared in the Dublin University Review in 1885.

(Only ten brief lyrics had appeared in her lifetime, grudgingly surrendered, and without a signature. One was attributed to Emerson).

One of Italy's most important contemporary poets, Erba is approachable yet complex, distinctively and artfully combining traditional and informal means in his brief lyrics.

The baffled, foreshortened poems of that decade are almost all brief lyrics, their brevity due to Strand's refusal, in work otherwise painstakingly retrospective, to grant them access to his past.

Some of Emily Dickinson's brief lyrics come closest — tonally, and in their mastery of the short, compressed line — but she has never quite attained Housman's popularity, and the landscape she wrote about, the one inside her own head, could hardly be said to have created a sense of national identity.

Ms. Hunter performs the two darkest pieces on the program, the short play "Rockaby" and "Neither," a brief lyric originally written for the composer Morton Feldman.

In the major poems of his middle period, Tennyson combined the larger scale required by his new ambitions with his original gift for the brief lyric by building long poems out of short ones.

She is Lorraine Levine, of Long Island, stooped with age into an S shape, eyes big as moons behind those magnifying lenses, proud to share her contribution, a brief lyric titled "No, Really, Please, Don't Get Up".

And Thomas is master of the brief lyric, as in In Memoriam (Easter , 1915: The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

Rufinus – known for his erotic poems – was among the finer poets of this era, as seen in this brief lyric translated by Robin Skelton: Time has not withered you; in age your shining apples, your moist rose, retain that beauty that has burned more hearts to ashes than it knows.

Szporluk is a master of the brief lyric, that focused brand of poetic intelligence that seems but a wisp until it adheres to the soul.