Poetry Codex

Tudor & Elizabethan

William Smith

fl. 1596

William Smith (fl. 1596) was an Elizabethan poet of whom nothing certain is known beyond his one surviving work.

That work, Chloris, or the Complaint of the Passionate Despised Shepherd (1596), is a pastoral sonnet cycle in the Shakespearean rhyme scheme, opening with sonnets of homage to Spenser as the shepherd Colin Clout.

Poems (53)

  1. To Colin Clout: Sonnet 1
  2. To Colin Clout: Sonnet 2
  3. To All Shepherds in General
  4. Chloris: Sonnet 1
  5. Chloris: Sonnet 2
  6. Chloris: Sonnet 3
  7. Chloris: Sonnet 4
  8. Chloris: Sonnet 5
  9. Chloris: Sonnet 6
  10. Chloris: Sonnet 7
  11. Chloris: Sonnet 8
  12. Chloris: Sonnet 9
  13. Chloris: Sonnet 10
  14. Chloris: Sonnet 11
  15. Chloris: Sonnet 12
  16. Chloris: Sonnet 13
  17. Chloris: Sonnet 14
  18. Chloris: Sonnet 15
  19. Chloris: Sonnet 16
  20. Chloris: Sonnet 17
  21. Chloris: Sonnet 18
  22. Chloris: Sonnet 19
  23. Chloris: Sonnet 20
  24. Chloris: Sonnet 21
  25. Chloris: Sonnet 22
  26. Chloris: Sonnet 23
  27. Chloris: Sonnet 24
  28. Chloris: Sonnet 25
  29. Chloris: Sonnet 26
  30. Chloris: Sonnet 27
  31. Chloris: Sonnet 28
  32. Chloris: Sonnet 29
  33. Chloris: Sonnet 30
  34. Chloris: Sonnet 31
  35. Chloris: Sonnet 32
  36. Chloris: Sonnet 33
  37. Chloris: Sonnet 34
  38. Chloris: Sonnet 35
  39. Chloris: Sonnet 36
  40. Chloris: Sonnet 37
  41. Chloris: Sonnet 38
  42. Chloris: Sonnet 39
  43. Chloris: Sonnet 40
  44. Chloris: Sonnet 41
  45. Chloris: Sonnet 42
  46. Chloris: Sonnet 43
  47. Chloris: Sonnet 44
  48. Chloris: Sonnet 45
  49. Chloris: Sonnet 46
  50. Chloris: Sonnet 47
  51. Chloris: Sonnet 48
  52. Chloris: Sonnet 49
  53. Corin's Dream of his fair Chloris

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