The Burning Babe

Versions of
The Burning Babe
by Robert Southwell

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The Burning Babe was taken from a collection called St. Peter's Complaint, printed privately and circulated shortly after the poet's execution in 1595. Ben Johnson said that he would have been content to destroy many of his own poems to have written The Burning Babe.

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Versions of The Burning Babe include:

"The Burning Babe," in The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, (ed.) by Alexander B. Grosart (1876).
"The Burning Babe," in Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918, (ed.) by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1940).