lyrist
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Famously, Orfeo, a master poet, singer and lyrist, convincingly serenades Caronte, followed by Pluto, lord of the underworld, begging that love beat death, that his wife go home with him across the river.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2018
A lyrist playing to a herd of cows masticating their own ignorance, Bella often thought.
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
"What are they?" one who knows Mr. Carman only as, say, a lyrist of spring or as a singer of the delights of vagabondia probably will ask in some wonder.
From Later Poems by Bliss Carman
William Caldwell Roscoe was at once lyrist, dramatist and critic, but failed to achieve greatness in any of these lines.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
A rain of aristocratic poems followed, for a Spaniard is a lyrist born, and turns from prose to verse as easily as he changes his cuffs.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
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