<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396194" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stanzas Written In Passing The Ambracian Gulf</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen,<br>Full beams the moon on Actium's coast:<br>And on these waves for Egypt's queen,<br>The ancient world was won and lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now upon the scene I look, <br>The azure grave of many a Roman;<br>Where stem Ambition once forsook<br>His wavering crown to follow woman.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Florence! whom I will love as well<br>As ever yet was said or sung<br>(Since Orpheus sang his spouse from hell),<br>Whilst thou art fair and I am young;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet Florence! those were pleasant times;<br>When worlds were staked for ladies'<br>Had bards as many realms as rhymes;<br>Thy charms might raise new Antonies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though Fate forbids such things to be<br>Yet, by thine eyes and ringlets curl'd!<br>I cannot lose a world for thee,<br>But would not lose thee for a world.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396194" data-title="Stanzas Written In Passing The Ambracian Gulf de Byron" data-description="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 ..."></div> </div> </div>

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