450 examples of lyres in sentences

While in sweet cadence rising small and still The far-off minstrels of the haunted hill, As the last bleating of the fold expires, Tune in the mountain dells their water lyres.

Proud lyres with thine immortal praises glow, Smitten by bards elate with victory: Lo, thine own Cavalcante, stormfully Lightning, still strikes the fortress of the foe!

We count the broken lyres that rest Where the sweet wailing singers slumber, But o'er their silent sister's breast The wild flowers who will stoop to number?

A Phylactery Wise men I hold those rakes of old Who, as we read in antique story, When lyres were struck and wine was poured, Set the white Death's Head on the board Memento mori.

He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers of fiends.

aerial Quires, And sweep with little hands your silver lyres; With fairy footsteps print your grassy rings, Ye Gnomes!

In the presence of so much finery and flowers one could imagine that nymphs in gauzy garments and Cupids with iridescent wings were going to serve nectar and ambrosia to aerial guests, to the sound of lyres and Aeolian harps.

For until now, whatever wrought Against my sweet desires, My days were smitten harps strung taut, My nights were slumbrous lyres.

Oh, come, dear Zir-ri, tune your lyres and lutes, And sing of love with chastest, sweetest notes, Of Accad's goddess Ishtar, Queen of Love, And Izdubar, with softest measure move; Great Samas' son, of him dear Zir-ri sing!

how the music swells from silver lute And golden-stringèd lyres and softest flute And harps and tinkling cymbals, measured drums, While a soft echo from the chamber comes.

An-nu-na-ci from forests, mounts around, And from the streams and lakes, and ocean, trees, And all that haunt the godly place, to please The lovers, softly chant and dance around To cymbals, lyres until the rocks resound, Of goddess Ishtar chant, and Izdubar, The Queen of Love wed to the King of War.

From lyres and lutes their softest wooings bring, As Ishtar bows before her lover king.

hear her weeping to the heavenly throng, Imploring them to chant their mournful song: "With your gold lyres, the dirge, oh, sing with me!

Ten thousand harps and lutes and golden lyres Are waiting now to start the Heavenly choirs.

To softest whisper of the leaves of trees; Then sweeter, grander, nobler, sweeping comes, Like myriad lyres that peal through Heaven's domes.

Hear their harps and lyres that sweetly sound!

Sweep thy lyres again!

They were all the melodies which poets have made to vibrate on the strings of lyres, and in those moments of delicious ecstasy he forgot the vexations, the littlenesses and the miseries of the world, and if anyone had asked him what was the aim of his life, he would have replied like Anaxagoras: "To love Nature, and to contemplate the sky.

The performers were provided with flutes, lyres, viols, and all the other instruments customarily used in those times to produce music of a gentle and voluptuous kind.

Strike lyres to greet them home; Bring roses, pour ye wine! Swell, swell the Dorian flute Thro' the blue, triumphal sky!

Who says that Poesy is on the wane, And that the Muses tune their lyres in vain? 'Mid all the treasures of romantic story, When thought was fresh and fancy in her glory, Has ever Art found out a richer theme, More dark a shadow, or more soft a gleam, Than fall upon the scene, sketched carelessly, In the newspaper column of to-day? American romance is somewhat stale.

But suddenly his eye grows bright, Lit by unearthly fires; He gazes upward with delight, The angels strike their lyres.

He has written of her, "the presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters," to whom all experience had been "but as the sound of lyres and flutes," and he has written of "The Child in the House."

With sketches by Lyres LeRoy Baldridge.

"In the strings of their lyres as the poets of old Fresh blossoms were used to entwine; As the shrines of their gods were enamell'd with gold, And sparkling with gems from the mine:

450 examples of  lyres  in sentences