Thomas Carew

Here you will find the Poem Song. Mediocrity in love rejected. of poet Thomas Carew

Song. 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 be love, 
 Like Danaë in that golden shower, 
I swim in pleasure ; if it prove 
 Disdain, that torrent will devour 
My vulture-hopes ; and he's possess'd 
Of heaven, that's but from hell released.
 Then crown my joys or cure my pain : 
 Give me more love or more disdain.