versemen

We do not mean, of course, to say anything in defence of the hackneyed common-places of ordinary versemen.

Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney

We do not mean, of course, to say anything in defiance of the hackneyed commonplace of ordinary versemen.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899

Preface-writer-General to distressed versemen; a kind of gratis

Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

When the battle of Blenheim called forth all the versemen, Prior, among the rest, took care to show his delight in the increasing honour of his country, by an epistle to Boileau.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

English versemen will acknowledge) in using the term "minor."

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889