Robert Southwell

Robert Southwell
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Short Name: Robert Southwell
Full Name: Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595
Birth Year (est.): 1561
Death Year: 1595

Southwell, Robert, was b. at Horsham St. Faith, Norfolk, about 1561, educated at Paris and at Rome, and entered the Society of Jesus at Rome, Oct. 17, 1578. He spent part of his noviciate at Tournai in Belgium, but returned to Rome and completed his studies there. After being ordained priest in 1584, he returned to England in 1586. He was arrested in 1592 on the charge of high treason, committed to the Tower of London, formally tried at Westminster, Feb. 21, 1594-5, and executed the next day at Tyburn.
His Poetical Works were collected in 1856 by W. B. Turnbull, and re-edited in 1872 more completely and more carefully by Dr. A. B. Grosart, from the Add. manuscript 10422 in the British Museum, from a manuscript, perhaps autograph, at Stonyhurst College, Lanes., and from the printed editions of the individual works. One of his carols is noted at p. 210, ii., one of his translations at p. 663, ii., three additional are in the Arundel Hymns, 1902. They are all in Grosart's edition and are here cited as they are found in the Add. 10422, the spelling being preserved:—
1. As I in hoarie winters nyght. [Christmas]. At f. 10 b. This is the admirable poem entitled "The Burning Babe."
2. Behoulde a seelie tender Babe. [Christmas.] At f. 11. See p. 210, ii.
3. In Paschall fest, ye ende of auntient rite. [Holy Communion.] At f. 17 b.
4. Let folly prayse that phaney loues. [Christmas.] At f. 9. The Arundel reads "what fancy loves."
5. Prayse, 0 Syon, prayse, prayse thy Saviour. At f. 16. From the "Lauda Sion," p. 663, ii.
See also notices in the Month for Oct. 1894, and Feb. and March 1895, and in the Dublin Review, Oct. 1903. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


Texts by Robert Southwell (22)sort ascendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Yet God's must I remainRobert Southwell (Author)2
Who lives in love, loves least to liveRobert Southwell (Author)2
When words are weakRobert Southwell (Author)2
When thou dost talk with God, by prayer I meanRobert Southwell (Author)3
To blaze the rising of this glorious sunRobert Southwell (Author)2
This little Babe so few days oldRobert Southwell, 1561-95 (Author)English3
The lopped tree in time may grow againRobert Southwell (Author)3
Praise, O Zion, praise thy SaviorRobert Southwell (Author)1
Our Savior, pattern of true holinessRobert Southwell (Author)2
O pleasant spot, O place of restRobert Southwell (Author)2
O Lord my sins doth overcharge thy breastRobert Southwell (Author)2
Let folly praise that fancy lovesRobert Southwell (Author)English7
In Paschal feast, ye end of ancient riteRobert Southwell (Author)2
If virtue be thy guideRobert Southwell, 1562-1569 (Author)2
I praise him most, I love him best, all praise and love is hisRobert Southwell (Author)2
I dwell in grace's courtsRobert Southwell (Author)2
He that his mirth hath lostRobert Southwell (Author)2
ReadingsRobert Southwell (Author)English1
Come to your heaven, you heavenly choirsRobert Southwell (Author)English3
Behold a simple, tender babeRobert Southwell (Author)6
Before my face the picture hangsRobert Southwell (Author)2
As I in hoary winter's nightRobert Southwell (Author)English3

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