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title: "Love for Love"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1792"
location: "Dumfries"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/love-for-love/"
---

# Love for Love

## Poem
Ithers seek they ken na what,  
Features, carriage, and a’ that;  
Gie me love in her I court,  
Love to love maks a’ the sport.

Let love sparkle in her e’e;  
Let her lo’e nae man but me;  
That’s the tocher-gude I prize,  
There the luver’s treasure lies.

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/love-for-love/