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someone who composes and recites or sings poems about important events and peopleShakespeare is sometimes called the Bard of Avon or just the Bard.
- He calls himself a bard from Brooklyn.
bard = someone who composes and recites or sings poems about important events and people
- Yet louder, higher, stronger, bard!Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass
- You've never heard of The Tales of Beedle the Bard?J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- At present, Mr. Achebe lives with his wife in Annandale, New York, where they both teach at Bard College.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- It was as the storyteller, the bard, that Harriet's active years came to a close.Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
- Hema's voice was sharp as a Bard-Parker blade and it nailed him in his seat.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- Tower teaches at Bard College.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- You recall, of course, the words of the Avon bard—'Thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel just.'Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- You can call it Mute Bard.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- "I'm writing a satire on 'cause now, calling it 'Boston Bards and Hearst Reviewers.'F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- His preacher repeated the prophecy, and his bards sang,— "Children, we all shall be free When the Lord shall appear!"W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
- For a moment he lay on the ballroom floor, breathing bard.Stephen King -- The Shining
- It had even thrown its gleam, in the sufferer's bard extremity, across the verge of time.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- The bards ate it up with a spoon and spread the tale to every shore....Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- And although their beds tried very bard, the two adults couldn't be rocked to sleep for another hour.Ray Bradbury -- The Veldt
- The bard rose throughout the length and breadth of his brave new world.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- You will have good news in a minute, that you will, and you want to seize the unforgiving minute, as the bard says.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- He would have had his Erin famed, The green flag gloriously unfurled, Her statesmen, bards and warriors raised Before the nations of the World.James Joyce -- Dubliners
- He slammed the door as bard as he could and we all heard him say, real clear, the S word.Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963
- Glory wore trappings of Lannister crimson; Honor was barded in Kingsguard white.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
bard = a lyric poet
bard = lyric poet