Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.

You mustnt forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me.

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.