Brown appears five times (2% of the total frequency of colour terms), once in each of five poems (5% of the total). One study finds that brown is the least liked colour. The preponderant association is with earth/ground. On the positive side, we have links with the solidity, safety and reliability of the ground we walk on, and also with the familiar (even old-fashioned) and welcoming. On the negative side there are associations with rotten food, mud and excrement, and more generally with ugliness and unpleasantness. Grey appears three times (in just three poems, just over 1% of the total number of colour term occurrences) in three poems (3% of the total) and has predominantly negative associations with gloomy weather, old age, depression, boredom, loneliness and insecurity. There are, however, more positive associations too, with the supposed wisdom which comes with age and with modesty, integrity and conservatism. We also offer tentative explanations for why the secondary basic colours pink, purple and orange do not appear in the corpus of poems we have analysed.