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

Simonides is the first Greek lyrist whose significance is not merely Aeolian or Dorian but Panhellenic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

How could that lyrist be harsh in his diction, who almost draws tears from our eyes, while his melodious lines and picturing epithets are remembered by his readers?

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac

"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 Carman, Bliss