Poetry Codex

Victorian

Thomas Smibert

1810–1854

Thomas Smibert (1810–1854) is one of the Scottish song-writers whose lives Charles Rogers sketched in The Modern Scottish Minstrel (six volumes, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1855–57).

This archive holds 4 songs printed under this poet's name in volume 4 of the anthology, in Rogers's spelling. Dates are those given in Rogers's memoir, which is the only source used here.

Poems (4)

  1. The Scottish Widow's Lament
  2. The Hero of St. John D'Acre
  3. Oh! Bonnie Are the Howes
  4. Oh! Say Na You Maun Gang Awa

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