Song. 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 Danaë in that golden shower,
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 released.
       Then crown my joys or cure my pain :
      Give me more love or more disdain.