Lyric
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...quality in poetry, it is more generally used to refer to any short poem that expresses a personal emotion, be it a sonnet, ode, song...best are those of Robert Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Lamartine, Hugo, Goethe, Heine, and Leopardi. American lyric...