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  • proper noun A female given name, a variant of Tirzah.

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Examples

  • Theresa, sometimes called Thyrza, Macri married an Englishman named

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • In short, "Thyrza" is a book of unusual literary merit. '

    The Talking Horse And Other Tales F. Anstey 1895

  • But if tears no longer flowed from his eyes, they did from his pen; for it was then he wrote his elegies to "Thyrza," whose pathetic sublimity is so well characterized by Moore; and that he added those melancholy stanzas in "Childe Harold" on the death of friends, which we find at the end of the second canto.

    Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836

  • It follows from this second statement that we have Byron's authority for connecting stanza ix. with stanzas xcv., xcvi., and, inferentially, his authority for connecting stanzas ix., xcv., xcvi. with the group of "Thyrza" poems.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • It was about the time when he was thus bitterly feeling and expressing the blight which his heart had suffered from a _real_ object of affection, that his poems on the death of an _imaginary_ one, "Thyrza," were written; -- nor is it any wonder, when we consider the peculiar circumstances under which these beautiful effusions flowed from his fancy, that of all his strains of pathos, they should be the most touching and most pure.

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

  • [Greek: Mpairon.] [Footnote 1: Here follows one of the 'Thyrza' poems.] [Footnote 2: The Hon.

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Byron was still abroad (May 1811), but not unwept nor unsung, if, as there is little doubt, the mysterious Thyrza poems of 1811, 1812 refer to his death.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Kate and Thyrza -- this latter from the Bonnivel house -- followed with dubious looks, feeling probably that they were neither "fish flesh, nor good red herring," in this motley assemblage, which offered no such companionship as they were accustomed to.

    Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • Those poems to the mysterious Thyrza, can any modern eroticism equal them, for large and troubled abandonment; natural as gasping human speech and musical as the murmur of deep waters?

    Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

  • So when Thyrza was finished he sold the first edition for forty pounds, and arranged for a percentage on succeeding editions.

    The Private Life of Henry Maitland Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942 1912

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