On Chloris Requesting me to Give her a Spring of
Chloris requests a sprig of white-blossomed sloe to adorn her breast. The speaker emphatically refuses to plant a thorn in her bosom.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Love Poetry, Epigram · 61 words
First lines
Requesting me to give her a Spring of Blossomed Thorn.
From the white-blossom'd sloe my dear Chloris requested / A sprig, her fair breast to adorn: / No, by Heavens! I exclaim'd, let me perish, if ever / I plant in that bosom a thorn!
Genres
- Love Poetry — The speaker calls Chloris dear and responds to her request with a vow never to plant a thorn in her bosom.
- Epigram — Four lines turn a request for a flowering ornament into a pointed joke about placing a thorn against the beloved's breast.
Tags
courtship · sloe blossoms · thorns · wordplay
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Love Poetry, Epigram
- Length: 61 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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