... who, alas, can love and then be wise?

And Julia sate with Juan, half embraced

And half retiring from the glowing arm,

Which trembled like the bosom where 't was placed;

Yet still she must have thought there was no harm,

Or else 't were easy to withdraw her waist;

But then the situation had its charm,

And then -- -- God knows what next -- I can't go on;

I'm almost sorry that I e'er begun.

-- fra Lord Byrons Don Juan. Jeg har en kritisk anmeldelse av den norske gjendiktningen her.