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

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 Walker, Hugh

Different, indeed, is the case when we come to consider Ramsay as a song-writer and a lyrist.

From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant

"Before everything I am enamoured of thy blonde tresses," says one lyrist.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn