verse-maker

Neither, indeed, has a man of any extent of thinking for a mere verse-maker, in whose numbers, however perfect, there is no poetry, no mind.

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

No one -- least of all one who is not even a verse-maker himself -- can, I suppose, analyse the intellectual process by which a poet {137} gets at his truths.

Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall

James II, who expressed what he thought they ought to feel, or whether the verse-maker was one in their midst, who saw that there was indeed no spirit left in them.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Beckmesser interrupts him; he has marked the rhymes on the black tablet, but they are new and unintelligible to this dry verse-maker, and he will not let them pass.

The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Charles Annesley

It was not until he discovered one morning that everybody knew a couplet or two of "How we beat the Favourite" that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-maker. '

Australian Writers Desmond Byrne

The theme was boundless and Schiller was a facile verse-maker.

The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

Not being a verse-maker himself, he hastened to the poet Mico of

Some Forerunners of Italian Opera 1896

He was a verse-maker, and though he had not seen the stranger himself, his imagination more than made amends for that.

The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

He was more or less a verse-maker from his childhood, amusing his father with making verses when, a boy of six, he led the oxen at the plough.

Sweet Singers of Wales 1889

One of his rival poet friends once told me that my favorite and favored verse-maker was an inveterate poker-player and a continual loser!

The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors George Douglass Sherley 1887