愛玩耍的凱莉絲

兒時，我已愛上她：威尼斯 

宛若精靈之城，駐我胸懷  
如同水柱，漂浮海上  
富裕的廣場，快樂的小徑！ 

奧特威、雷德克里佛、席勒、莎士比亞
為我展現她的容顏 
我願意她永駐我心 

不論滄海桑田，物換星移 
我永忠貞，隨她落魄不幸 
或在過往的盛世  

 --拜倫，摘錄自作家們的威尼斯 

I loved her from my boyhood; 
she to me
Was as a fairy city of the heart,
Rising like water-columns from the sea,
Of joy the sojourn, and of wealth the mart;

And Otway, Radcliffe, Schiller, Shakespeare's art,
Had stamp'd her image in me, and even so,

Although I found her thus, we did not part;
Perchance even dearer in her day of woe,
Than when she was a boast, a marvel, and a show....

 -- Lord George Gordon Byron / Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto the Fourth