He took part in the debating society, where he was prominent, and was known as a versifier of both love poems and satire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans] Reference

His talent for poetry earned him the post of "versifier" (poet-in-residence) for Bromley Friends of the Earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialist Worker (Britain)] Reference

He was a Kentucky blues man and a barroom versifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Breath of Dust] Reference

Hall had been a versifier, a writer of tales in prose, a.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

Grave as a pastor, Skinner revelled in drollery as a versifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

Mannians: whereupon a certaine versifier writeth to this effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

One may be a poet without versing, and a versifier without poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [English literary criticism] Reference

The incident was cleverly described by a versifier in the columns of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

Juster: “formalist poet, comic versifier, and classical translator.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet:] Reference

Another versifier exalts it at the expense of its would-be rival, coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Tea Book] Reference

A light versifier encapsulated the situation in The Saturday Evening Post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Booms and Busts] Reference

Longfellow was a gifted versifier, and today is dismissed as only a versifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Longfellow: A Founder] Reference

He recruited the paper's first editor, Philip Freneau, a versifier and college chum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Father of American Politics] Reference

Mr.G. C. Stent has aptly seized the idea of the C.inese versifier whom he translates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

Hence, a contemporary versifier and participator in these scenes was able to write.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863] Reference

There is perhaps no versifier at the Table with quite the same fancy or taste as Gilbert.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

He rapidly achieved success as a newspaper and magazine writer and as a light versifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)] Reference

"And then down comes the rain and spoils it all," finished the versifier, lapsing into prose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference

Besides his labors as a playwright, he worked as translator, versifier, and general maker of books.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference

Miss Cushman is really quite as good a poet as Miss Cook, though by no means so fluent a versifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference

M. Lamartine is no poet, in my estimation, though he may be an elegant versifier; he has no sublime ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

In 1823, he became known as an elegant versifier, by the publication of his translations from the "Spanish Ballads.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

Other four stanzas have been added, by some anonymous versifier, to Mayne's verses, which first appeared in Duncan's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

Eglamor, the versifier who servilely conformed to the taste of the mob, with Sordello, the true poet, who despised it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference

“If we except this Perrault, and some others, whose merits the versifier Boileau was not capable of appreciating.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

He was a witty versifier and clever dramatist, but he soon tired of the paper and directed his energies into other channels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

The ladies said, It was very pretty; and Miss Darnford, That somebody else had more need to be concerned than the versifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

At his right hand in the Call office sat Frank Soule — a gentle spirit — a graceful versifier who believed himself a poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

Perhaps in their time, some versifier, singer or miserable gladiator was better known than Ovid who died of sadness in distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of The Cycle] Reference

After composing the music, he presented it to Herbeck, who assigned his staff versifier to fit singable words to Strauss's music.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waltz That Defines Vienna] Reference

He is generally a smooth and fluent versifier, but his fluency is his undoing; he wraps up his material in too great a mass of verbiage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

Fenton may be justly styled an excellent versifier and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II] Reference

Call office sat Frank Soule -- a gentle spirit -- a graceful versifier who believed himself a poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

If there was one role in which he fancied himself (and, indeed, there were a good many), it was that of a versifier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of St. Austin's] Reference

Among the poets whom Marguerite received with favour at her court was CLÉMENT MAROT, the versifier, as characterised by Boileau, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference