lyrist

It would be difficult to find a finer lyrist among the mountains.

Although I turned aside and sought diligently, I could not find the shy lyrist.

His extant shorter poems, however, whether early or late, offer no excuse for claiming high rank for him as a lyrist.

And where the sonneteers pretended to a sincerity which was none of theirs, he was, like Browning, unaffectedly a dramatic lyrist.