In 1902 Symons made a selection from his earlier verse, published as Poems.

There he recuperated, wrote his early published verse, and taught.

The earlier verses mention only Jesus' grave clothes as being in the tomb.

His early verse is impeccably musical and rich in sound.

The poet's earlier verses were a lie because it said he could not love the youth more.

He began publishing his earliest verse in high school and continued in New York.

He turned his own earlier verse into a nation at the very moment of its abandonment.

This time frame allowed for a development of the kind of persecution described in the earlier verses.

He was a published war poet, and collected his early verse in Behind the Eyes (1921).

The speaker lists in the earlier verses what he (or Brahmān) is not.