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George Gordon Byron - Stanzas Written In Passing The Ambracian Gulf
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Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen,
   Full beams the moon on Actium`s coast:
And on these waves for Egypt`s queen,
   The ancient world was won and lost.
 
And now upon the scene I look, 
   The azure grave of many a Roman;
Where stem Ambition once forsook
   His wavering crown to follow woman.
 
Florence! whom I will love as well
   As ever yet was said or sung
(Since Orpheus sang his spouse from hell),
   Whilst thou art fair and I am young;
 
Sweet Florence! those were pleasant times;
   When worlds were staked for ladies`
Had bards as many realms as rhymes;
   Thy charms might raise new Antonies.
 
Though Fate forbids such things to be
   Yet, by thine eyes and ringlets curl`d!
I cannot lose a world for thee,
   But would not lose thee for a world.
 
Nov. 14, 1809.
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