Romantic Romans

I often wonder at those who say the Romantics first waxed poetic on the beauties of nature and that nature's beauty was all background to the Romans. Here is a bit of clunky Latin from Tiberianus:

caerulas superne laurus et virecta myrtea
leniter motabat aura blandiente sibilo.

The breeze gently stirs with pleasing hush
The dark laurels and green myrtles above.

We can find like passages in other authors, but the entire little poem (20 verses total) consists of the description of a stream and its surroundings.