Monday, March 28, 2011

Mediocrity in Love Rejected - Thomas Carew

Mediocrity in Love Rejected

Give me more love, or more disdain;
   The torrid or the frozen zone
Bring equal ease unto my pain;
   The temperate affords me none:
Either extreme, of love or hate,
Is sweeter than a calm estate.

Give me a storm; if it bew love,
   Like Danae in that golden shower,
I swim in pleasure; if it prove
   Disdain, that torrent will devour
My vulture hopes; and he's possessed
Of heaven that's but from hell released.
   Then crown my joys, or cure my pain;
   Give me more love, or more disdain.

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