Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One in whom the gifts and skill of the poet and the musician are united; a bard.
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Examples
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I had assumed he'd left her because he had always been the prettier gender, the mallard with an iridescent green head, a yellow beak, the poet-musician with the perfect amber curl at the nape of his neck.
Chinchillas in the Air Rae Bryant 2010
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The other day I finished reading poet-musician Patti Smith's beautiful memoir, Just Kids.
Douglas LaBier: The Elusive Soul Mate: From Fantasy to Reality 2010
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It comes from every quarter of the theatre, and is marvellously thrilling, with all the subtle fascination of what a poet-musician would call its
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various
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And the flock of grey-plumaged, rosy-headed cranes winged their way on to the marshes, there to beck and bow to each other, and to dance in the golden sunset, well content because their message was delivered, and Ibycus, the poet-musician who had given them welcome, was avenged.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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"Music is love in search of a word," said the same poet-musician.
Edward MacDowell Elizabeth Fry Page
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Yet no one needed a kind, helpful, sympathetic wife more than did our poet-musician.
The World's Great Men of Music Brower, Harriette 1922
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I lately discovered that Campion, the poet-musician, who, like Strachey, was a Member of Gray's Inn, wrote a short Latin poem to Strachey.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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Yet no one needed a kind, helpful, sympathetic wife more than did our poet-musician.
The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898
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I lately discovered that Campion, the poet-musician, who, like Strachey, was a Member of Gray's Inn, wrote
The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893
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Nearer to him than the master poet-musician are Verdi,
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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