Song - Love in the Guise of Friendship

Portrait of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 1759–1796
204Poems and Songs. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

YOUR friendship much can make me blest, O why that bliss destroy! Why urge the only, one request You know I will deny!

Your thought, if Love must harbour there, Conceal it in that thought; Nor cause me from my bosom tear The very friend I sought.

Keep reading

Discover more of Robert Burns’s poetry.

Explore all poems

Readers

Reader discussion

Your turn

Shown with your comment.

Never published. Only so we can reach you.

Comments are read before they appear. See our terms.