Music and poesy used to quicken you.
Shak.
3. A short conceit or motto engraved on a ring or other thing; a posy.
Bacon.
Po"et (?), n. [F. poÎte, L. poÎta, fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to make. Cf.
Poem.] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius
for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker
or writer.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven
to earth, from earth to heaven.
Shak.
A poet is a maker, as the word signifies.
Dryden.
Poet laureate. See under Laureate.
Po"et*as`ter (?), n. An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler
in poetic art.
The talk of forgotten poetasters.
Macaulay.