English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Thomas Carew
233. Give Me More Love
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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.
Like Danaë in that golden shower,
I’ll swim in pleasure; if it prove
Disdain, that torrent will devour
Of heaven, that’s from hell released.
Then crown my joys, or cure my pain;
Give me more love, or more disdain.