English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 233. Give Me More Love |
| | | Thomas Carew (1595(?)–1639(?)) |
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| 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, | 5 |
| Is sweeter than a calm estate. | |
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| Give me a storm; if it be love— | |
| Like Danaë in that golden shower, | |
| I’ll swim in pleasure; if it prove | |
| Disdain, that torrent will devour | 10 |
| My vulture hopes; and he’s possessed | |
| Of heaven, that’s from hell released. | |
| Then crown my joys, or cure my pain; | |
| Give me more love, or more disdain. | |
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