Author:Robert Southwell

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Robert Southwell (1561–1595)

sister projects: Wikipedia article. An English poet and Catholic priest, executed in 1595, canonized in 1970.

Works

Poems

• St. Peter's Complaint
• The Burning Babe
• Mary Magdalen's Blushe
• Mary Magdalen's Complaint at Christ's Death
• Tymes goe by turnes
• Look Home
• Fortune's Falsehood
• Scorn not the Least
• A Child my Choice
• Content and Rich
• Loss and Delay
• Love's Servile Lost
• Life's but Loss
• I die alive
• What Joy to Live
• Life's Death, Love's Life
• At Home in Heaven
• Lewd Love is Loss
• Love's Garden Grief
• From Fortune's Reach

Prose

• Mary Magdalens Funeral Tears (1591)
• Two Letters
• Short Rules of a Good Life
• An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty
• A Hundred Meditations on the Love of God

Works about Southwell

• "Robert Southwell", a biographical sketch from The Poets' Chantry by Katherine Brégy.
• Robert Southwell article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.