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Poem by Robert Burns


On a Request of Chloris


From a white-blossom’d sloe my dear Chloris requested
  	A sprig her fair breast to adorn;
No, by heavens! I exclaimed, let me perish if ever
  	I plant in that bosom a thorn!

1794

Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
  2. The Lass of Ecclefechan
  3. By Allan Stream
  4. Cock Up Your Beaver
  5. Sae Flaxen Were


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