Definition of "verse-maker" []

• One who writes verses; a rimer. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Neither, indeed, has a man of any extent of thinking for a mere verse-maker, in whose numbers, however perfect, there is no poetry, no mind."
• "No one -- least of all one who is not even a verse-maker himself -- can, I suppose, analyse the intellectual process by which a poet {137} gets at his truths."
• "It was not until he discovered one morning that everybody knew a couplet or two of "How we beat the Favourite" that he consented to forego his anonymity and appear in the unsuspected character of a verse-maker. '"