For a heart-rending version of the song by Karen Matheson with Paul Brady, click The Betrothal of Robert Burns and Highland Mary, by James Archer, R.S.A. The Scots song "Ae fond kiss and then we sever" is Burns' most recorded love song. Agnes Maclehose and they began a regular correspondence using the pseudonyms 'Clarinda' and 'Sylvander'.īurns wrote 'Ae fond kiss' after their final meeting and sent it to her on 27 December 1791 before she departed Edinburgh for Jamaica to be with her estranged husband.
While there he established a platonic relationship with Mrs. But the poem itself speaks to the theme of the passion and hopelessness of love.Īfter the publication of his collected poems, the Kilmarnock volume, Burns regularly travelled and stayed at Edinburgh. However, toward the end of his life he became an excise collector in Dumfries, where he died in 1796 throughout his life. Like his father, Burns was a tenant farmer.
The title itself suggests a love poem, and the dance takes its cue from this happy thought. Burns wrote ‘Ae fond kiss’ after their final meeting and sent it to Mclehose on 27 December 1791 before she departed Edinburgh for Jamaica to be with her estranged husband. Robert Burns was born in 1759, in Alloway, Scotland, to William and Agnes Brown Burnes. One of the many dances inspired by Robert Burns' poetry, this particular poem is three stanzas originally written in 1791 as a letter.
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