Which preposition to use with lyrics

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The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Traditional) (lyrics by Julia War Howe)

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Pious Catholic defenders write that the Roman Breviary has hymns far superior to the classic lyrics of ancient Rome; that they have an inimitable style; that they are far superior to Horatian poetry; that there is nothing to compare with their style and beauty in pagan classics, Indeed, zeal has led some holy men to censure Pope Leo X., Clement VII., and.

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He could compose lyrics in Arabic and Turkish as well as in Persian.

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CHAPTER I. SACRED LYRICS OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

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Mr. Dixey wanted two lyrics for songs.

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My sweet-voiced fountain softly sings Its good-night lyric to the lake; A skiff glides by on slender wings With scarce a ripple in its wake; And pleasure-boats, their canvas furled, Float idly in an ideal world.

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In the deepest poetry, as in the loftiest music,in Wordsworth's lyrics as in Beethoven's sonatasit is by what they unerringly suggest and not by what they exhaustively express that their truth and power are known.

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He, however, had more ability as a writer of lyrics than of narrative verse.

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The best pastoral lyrics from the modern point of view are Shakespeare's two songs: "Under the Greenwood Tree" (As you like it) and "When Icicles Hang by the Wall" (Love's Labor's Lost).

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In Shakespeare's early youth it was the fashion to write lyrics about the delights of rustic life with sheep and shepherds.

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Hood wrote but a few short lyrics on the poor; Crabbe wrote volumes.

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His name not infrequently occurs to the graceful lyrics with which he supplied the theatre.

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As he wrote lyric after lyric, inspired by this sad subject, the poet's grief became less personal, and the greater grief of humanity mourning for its dead and questioning its immortality took possession of him.

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I have a dark suspicion that a modern poet might manufacture an admirable lyric out of almost every line of Pope.

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our very footmen compose tragedies, and there is scarcely a superannuated governess in the island that does not leave a roll of lyrics behind her in her band-box.

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With the postulate that song is the true language of life, the story is sprinkled with lyrics at every turn.

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when, dropping his pen, he plunged into music as a strong confident swimmer plunges into the stream which he especially loves, interpreting with warm feeling Mendelssohn and Beethoven, wandering unlost in the vocal labyrinths of Dvorak and Wagner, but never happier than when interpreting the emotions of simple folk-songs, or some noble Shakespearian lyrics like "Who is Sylvia, what is she, that all the swains commend her?"

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De Folligny's appearance at Verneuil had made Markham thoughtful, but Olga's intrusion now had paraphrased their pastoral lyric into unworthy prose.

Which preposition to use with  lyrics