Robert Southwell was a prominent English poet of the late 16th century. His poetry, deeply influenced by the Reformation, is notable for its profound religious sentiment and literary skill.
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Source: Collected Poems
“Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
Source: The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull
Source: St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems
Source: Poetical works
“No joy so great but runneth to an end,No hap so hard but may in fine amend.”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
Source: The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
“Christianity is warfare, and Christians are spiritualsoldiers.”
Source: Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears: The Triumphs Over Death; and An Epistle of Comfort
“Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.”
Source: The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull
“What thought can think, another thought can mend.”
Source: Poetical works
“I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.”
Source: The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell
“Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.”
“When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live.”
Source: The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell
Source: St. Peter's Complaint: And Other Poems