Lyric Poem · Friendship
Love in the Guise of Friendship
by Robert Burns
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.
This poem is in the public domain.
“Love in the Guise of Friendship” by Robert Burns — quilloak.com/poems/love-in-the-guise-of-friendship
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