It was likely based on a now lost earlier poem.

Her earliest poems were written when she was 10 years old.

The early poems are far less corrected than the later.

Two early poems appear to shed some light on what happened.

In its Latin form it is sometimes bound up with the three earlier poems.

The early poems are more lyrical than where I am at now.

The early poems may have been used in worship at the temple.

They are the earliest poems by the author known to have survived.

While his earlier poems were kept in print, new work was constantly produced.

The other night we talked about the early poems he wrote as a schoolboy.