Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek.
It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, sometimes called the "Lyric Age of Greece", but continued to be written into the Hellenistic and Imperial periods.
Alcaeus and Sappho (Brygos Painter, Attic red-figure kalathos, c. 470 BC)
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
Lyric Poetry (1896) Henry Oliver Walker, in the Library of Congress's Thomas Jefferson Building.
Alcaeus and Sappho depicted on an Attic red-figure calathus c. 470 BC
Benjamin Haydon's 1842 portrait of William Wordsworth.