Lady Anne Southwell
@annesouthwell.bsky.social
Born Anne Harris 1574 Cornworthy, Devon, married Thomas Southwell 1594, Henry Sibthorpe 1626, lived in Ireland 1594(?)-1631, England 1631-36 (d.) Serious and ambitious religious poet and theorist. Manuscript works held by Folger and British libraries.
And now he ravens like a frantic brute / And makes his will the servant to his sense, / Whose soul doth never with his God dispute, / But blindly seats her in concupiscence. (Me on worldly, corrupt rulers I have known).
March 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And now he ravens like a frantic brute / And makes his will the servant to his sense, / Whose soul doth never with his God dispute, / But blindly seats her in concupiscence. (Me on worldly, corrupt rulers I have known).
Raise up thy faculties my soul, ‘tis time / To wake from idleness the child of death! / Mount to the heavens, and there thy wings sublime, / Where bodies live, not bound to hazard breath.” And thus begin my verses on the first commandment. A.S.
February 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Raise up thy faculties my soul, ‘tis time / To wake from idleness the child of death! / Mount to the heavens, and there thy wings sublime, / Where bodies live, not bound to hazard breath.” And thus begin my verses on the first commandment. A.S.