Smibert, Thomas (M)

b. 8 February 1810. d. 16 January 1854. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet and miscellaneous writer. Pseudonym: “T. S.” Born in Peebles. Trained at the University of Edinburgh as a surgeon. Sub-editor and then editor of *Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal*, and also contributed prolifically to the magazine. Author of *Io Anche! Poems Chiefly Lyrical* (1851). Biographical information: *ODNB*. (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Young Maid and the Flower 1837-07-15 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3492
The Hearty Old Man 1837-07-15 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3490
The Tax-Gatherer 1838-02-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3523
The Convoy of David 1838-02-10 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3522
The Guardian Angel 1838-05-05 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3533
The Fly 1838-05-05 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3534
Song of the Imprisoned Cœur de Lion 1838-08-18 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3619
The Scottish Widow’s Lament 1839-02-23 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 3715
The Old Minstrel 1839-03-02 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3718
The Prisoner’s Fire 1839-03-02 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3717
The Birds 1839-03-02 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3716
A Ballad of Sir Richard Fanshawe 1839-05-04 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 3727
“Dear Thirty-Nine” 1839-05-11 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 3728
Lamartine’s Farewell To France, on Embarking at Marseilles for the Holy Land 1839-08-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Translator 3739
Departing Emigrant’s Song 1840-05-09 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 4392
The First Swallow 1840-06-06 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 4398
To the Wild Bee 1840-09-05 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5220
Lines Addressed to a Friend From the Vicinity of Abbotsford 1840-11-07 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5234
A Young Poet’s Musing 1841-08-21 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5275
Lines to A Father’s Memory 1841-10-02 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5282
Sonnet 1841-10-02 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5283
To the Absent Swallow 1842-07-16 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5336
Scotland: A Song 1842-09-03 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5344
The Birds 1842-09-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5346