Love

Against Indifference

by Charles Webbe fl. c. 1678

From The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)

Love

More love or more disdain I crave,
Sweet, be not still indifferent:
O send me quickly to my grave,
Or else afford me more content!
Or love or hate me more or less,
For love abhors all lukewarmness.

Give me a tempest if ’twill drive
Me to the place where I would be;
Or if you’ll have me still alive,
Confess you will be kind to me.
Give hopes of bliss or dig my grave:
More love or more disdain I crave.

MLA

Webbe, Charles. “Against Indifference.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/webbe/0/.

Chicago

Webbe, Charles. “Against Indifference.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/webbe/0/.

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