![]() ![]() The melody playable on the link here is not Rory Dalls Port, but perhaps is now more associated with the words than the original. ![]() The musical score was published in the collection of Scottish folks songs known as the Scots Musical Museum. Burns Night, effectively a second national day, is celebrated on 25 January with Burns suppers around the world, and is still more. The letter is held by National Library of Scotland as part of the Watson Autograph collection of manuscripts.īurns’ original setting of three verses in eight lines was set to the tune of Rory Dalls’ Port. Analytical Summary Robert Burns’ ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ is a poem written for a letter directed towards a lover who is now leaving forever. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well-known across the world today, include A Red, Red Rose, A Mans A Man for A That, To a Louse, To a Mouse, The Battle of Sherramuir, and Ae Fond Kiss. 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. While there he established a platonic relationship with Mrs Agnes Maclehose and they began a regular correspondence using the pseudonyms ‘Clarinda’ and ‘Sylvander’. It is Burns’ most recorded love song.Īfter the publication of his collected poems, the Kilmarnock volume, Burns regularly travelled and stayed at Edinburgh. The Scots song “Ae fond kiss and then we sever” by the Scottish poet Robert Burns is more commonly known as “Ae fond kiss”. ![]()
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