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 Danae in that golden show'r

    I swim in pleasure; if it prove

      Disdain, that torrent will devour

  My vulture-hope s; and he's possess'd

  Of heaven, that's but from hell releas'd.

  Then crown my joys, or cure my pain;

  Give me more love, or more disdain.

NOTESForm: ababcc8. Danae: imprisoned in a tower, she was loved by Zeus in the form of a shower of gold.