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 clam estate. Give me a storm; if it be 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FIRST ICE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 42. 'GRECIAN AND ENGLISH' by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THE NEWPORT TOWER by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD THE CLAIM by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING PICTURES by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON UPON YE SIGHT OF MY ABORTIVE BIRTH YE 31TH: OF DECEMBER 1657 by MARY CAREY |