Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAGGIORE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: Friend, rest awhile upon thy glistening oars
Last Line: And let us drift and dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Nightmares; Italians


FRIEND, rest awhile upon thy glistening oars,
And let us drift and dream
Of naught beyond these mountain-bordered shores
That in the sunlight gleam!

Away, all memory of life's storm and stress,
All thought of days to be!
Hail, holy calm and sweet forgetfulness,
Beloved Italy!

In tiny sapphire ripples round us break
The wavelets one by one,
Upon the bosom of the fairest lake
That sees the shining sun.

Italian breezes, languorous and low,
Around us steal and sigh;
From peak to peak, suffused with amber glow,
Spans the Italian sky.

If paradise there be on earthly shores,
Here is its heavenly gleam;
Then, friend, rest idly on thy dipping oars
And let us drift and dream!





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