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Carew: “Mediocrity in Love Rejected”

Carew: “Mediocrity in Love Rejected”

The Cavalier Poetry of Thomas Carew, as understood by EAH: Anja, Mia, Sophia, Ian, and Alex

Mediocrity in Love Rejected

BY THOMAS CAREW
 
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-hopes; 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.
 

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