Writings

This page contains a selection of the author's writings in the form of PDF files.

St Peter's Complaynt

This book comprises 153 pages and is a study of St Robert Southwell's poem, St Peters Complaynt. The text used is the one published in 1595 and is accompanied by paraphrases and extensive annotations. The poem has 792 lines divided into 132 stanzas. It is considered to be the last poem Southwell wrote before his execution on 21 February 1595.

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David's Peccavi

This booklet comprises 12 pages and is a study of St Robert Southwell's poem, David's Peccavi. The text used is the one published in 1595 and is accompanied by paraphrases and extensive annotations. 

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Christ's Bloody Sweate

This booklet comprises 12 pages and is a study of St Robert Southwell's poem, Christ's Bloody Sweate. The text used is the one published in 1595 and is accompanied by paraphrases and extensive annotations. 

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Three Marian Hymns from the Little Office

This booklet comprises 12 pages and contains the following hymns:

Memento, rerum Conditor
Quem terra, pontus, sidera
O Gloriosa Virginum. 

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The Holy Infant : Three Poems

This booklet comprises 12 pages and contains the following poems. The first is The Burning Babe by St Robert Southwell. I have included notes but did not judge it necessary to “translate” the text with a paraphrase as the vocabulary and syntax are more accessible than in some of his other work. The second and third poems are by St Thérèse of the Child Jesus: La Rosée Divine (Dew from Heaven) and À l'Enfant Jésus (To the Child Jesus). I have included an English translation in verse which aims to replicate the meter and rhyming scheme as well as the imagery of the original.Click here to read the book: 👉 The Holy Infant : Three Poems.