rhymster

If he imitates, he ceases for the time to be a poet, degenerates into a rhymster, and his flowers upon close inspection will be found to have been fabricated from muslin.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various

"Good, Bill, good!" shouted Claud, gripping the rough rhymster by the hand.

The Kangaroo Marines R. W. Campbell

The humorists, ever stirred by novelty, tilted, pen in hand, at these new drinks: thus one rhymster described coffee as

Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp

As an example of the change in public sentiment with the lapse of time, we learn that this noted clergyman was a distiller as well, of whom a witty rhymster wrote: --

Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain Harriet Manning Whitcomb

"I am a bit of a rhymster, as thou knowest," he said.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

The authorship of the song was afterwards claimed by William Glass, [13] an obscure rhymster of the capital.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

He pointed out the dangers inherent in a restricted rhyme, and cited the case of Browning, the great rhymster, who was prone to resort to any rhyme, and frequently ended in absurdity, finding it easier to make a new verse than to make an end.

In Flanders Fields and Other Poems 1919

_ Heaven bless the rhymster who first penned those words.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

A rhymster of the day celebrated the fact in a song, of which the following couplet was the refrain:

A southern girl in '61 : the war-time memories of a Confederate senator's daughter, 1905

This one poor rhymster, having burnt his own rhymes, began to live that life of open air and acted poetry of which all the poets of the earth have dreamed in vain; the life for which the Iliad is only a cheap substitute.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill 1905