ROW us out from Desenzano, to your Sirmione row! So they row'd, and there we landed -- 'O venusta Sirmio!' There to me thro' all the groves of olive in the summer glow, There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow, Came that 'Ave atque Vale' of the Poet's hopeless woe, Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago, 'Frater Ave atque Vale'-- as we wander'd to and fro Gazing at the Lydian laughter of the Garda Lake below Sweet Catullus's all-but-island, olive-silvery Sirmio! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE SHADE OF PO CHU-I by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS JUNE (1) by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT MY LITTLE DREAMS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TIMES GO BY TURNS by ROBERT SOUTHWELL ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 1: 16. PERSUASION by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |