1. Dear Countryman 2. Braddan Vicarage 3. Planting 4. Clifton 5. The Doctor 6. At Derbyhaven 7. Childhood 8. The Pazons 9. Mater Dolorosa 10. I was in heaven one day 11. Gardens 12. Fanny Graham 13. Cows 14. The Schooner 15. To sing a song shall please my countryman 16. The schoolmaster 17. At eventide 18 Bella Gorry 19 Tommy Big Eyes 20 And the doctor working night and day 21 A Fisher bold 22 The Christmas Rose T.E Brown, the manx national poet, was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, on May 5th 1830, the 6th of 10 children of a parson -schoolmaster and poet. Father and son shared generous spirit and a delight in pastoral imagery. "To many, he was only a local poet who rhymed in dialect, a kind of begger at Appollo's gae. How personal, how many-sided: how humorous and how passionate: how rich in sentiment, yet how abounding in farce: how brilliantly and variously lettered, and how unalterably humane: how strong in discipline, how quick with the defensive spirit, yet how riotously accidental, how beautifully unpedantic! W. E Henley. T. E Brown's poetic manifesto expresses his desire to celebrate the Island of his birth. He aimed to : "unlock the treasure of the Island heart". A patriot committed to the preservation of the island's cultural heritage, T E Brown now finds himself squarely at the epicentre of that heritage. His work provides the cornerstone of Manx vernacular verse tradition.