Lyric poetry, properly defined, was a distinct branch of what was classified as "melic" poetry (the term roughly translates as "melody" or "air"), strictly differentiated from poetic genres that were meant to be recited without instrumentation or performed with other instruments such as the flute and the oboe-like aulos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry Pages - 98.06.10] Reference

Here we have the smooth-stalked meadow grass, and here is the hedge wood-melic grass, with its slightly drooping panicle, and spikelets on long slender footstalks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

The symposium was a clubby bastion of the aristocratic male citizenry, but as Ewen Bowie writes in The Oxford History of the Classical World, "melic poetry was at home everywhere," and there is evidence to suggest that rounds of lyric poetry became a standard form of entertainment at after-dinner soirees all across the Aegean archipelago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry Pages - 98.06.10] Reference

Spreaders like Japanese bloodgrass and hakonechloa give better coverage, clumpers like blue fescue and hairy melic can punctuate a design.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Younger, in distinction to Diodorus Zonas, is mentioned as a friend of his own by Strabo, and was a historian and melic poet besides being an epigrammatist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology] Reference

Hugh de Nonant, the new bishop of Coventry, one Confessor's Day had begun saying the introit, when his Lincoln namesake lifted up his voice and began the long melic intonation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference

Gave birth to melic sounds of organing.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Nature of Things] Reference

And heard the melic throbbing of the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country] Reference

| Roots of melic | 21.60 | 29.1 | 21.4 |.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference