Crossword-Solution: LYRIST 6 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Ill-fated, impious race! That blasphem’d the bright Lyrist to his face, And did not know it,--no, they went about, Holding a poor, decrepid standard out Mark’d with most flimsy mottoes, and in large The name of one Boileau!” It was these lines that raised the ire of Byron, who regarded them as an irreverent assault upon his favorite poet, Pope.

Others pretend that the lyrist died in a very happy state of mind, singing one of his own sacred melodies, and expressing his belief that it would be heard within the gate of paradise, and gain him instant and honorable admittance.

When the future lyrist was fifteen months old his father, Nicholas Herrick, made his will, and immediately fell out of an upper window.

While all other forms of poetry may flourish in an ignoble age, the splendid individualism of the lyrist, fed by its own passion, and lit by its own power, may pass as a pillar of fire as well across the desert as across places that are pleasant.

Huntress arrowy to pursue, Colder she than sunless dew, She, that breath of upper air; Ay, but never lyrist sang, Draught of Bacchus never sprang Blood the bliss of Gods to share, High o'er sweep of eagle wings, Like the run with her, when rings Clear her rally, and her dart, In the forest's cavern heart, Tells of her victorious aim.