Your friendship much can make me blest,O why that bliss destroy!Why urge the only, one requestYou know I will deny!
Your thought, if Love must harbour there,Conceal it in that thought;Nor cause me from my bosom tearThe very friend I sought.
1788 · Poem
Love in the Guise of Friendship
- Year
- 1788
- Form
- Poem
- Location
- Mossgiel
- Source
- Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns