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Tom Brown
Jones, William R.. “Brown, Thomas (bap. 1663, d. 1704).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Biographical information Given name: Tom Family name: Brown Birth date: ca. 1663 Death date: 16 June 1704 Nationality: English Education Newport grammar school Christ Church, Oxford to 20 March 1684 Occupation: Schoolmaster Residences London Newport, Shropshire Buried at: East Cloister, Westminster Abbey

doctor fell
 
 
Doctor Fell
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.
The reason why, I cannot tell;
But this ... [read poem]
the properly scholarly attitude
 
 
The poet pursues his beautiful theme;
The preacher his golden beatitude;
And I run afte... [read poem]
i do not love thee, dr fell
 
 
I do not love thee, Dr Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this I know, and know full ... [read poem]
trapped
 
 
Well and
If day on day
Follows, and weary year
On year. . and ever days and years. .
Well?
the lonely death
 
 
In the cold I will rise, I will bathe
In waters of ice; myself
Will shiver, and shrive mys... [read poem]
amaze
 
 
I know
Not these my hands
And yet I think there was
A woman like me once had hands
Like these.
to the dead in the graveyard underneath my window
 
 
How can you lie so still? All day I watch
And never a blade of all the green sod moves
To ... [read poem]
grain field
 
 
Scarlet the poppies
Blue the corn-flowers,
Golden the wheat.
Gold for The Eternal:... [read poem]
release
 
 
With swift
Great sweep of her
Magnificent arm my pain
Clanged back the doors that shut my soul
From life.
triad
 
 
These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow. . the hour
Before the dawn. . the mouth of one
Just dead.
niagara
 
 
How frail
Above the bulk
Of crashing water hangs,
Autumnal, evanescent, wan,
The moon.
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