The song was first published in 1792 in James Johnson’s Scots Musical Museum (which can be seen on display at RBBM).ĭeep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee, Upon learning of her planned departure, Burns was inspired and sent her the heart-rending song Ae Fond Kiss. In 1792, Agnes returned to the West Indies at the request of her estranged husband (only to return after finding out he had started another family). They engaged in an intense yet unconsummated love affair, largely through a series of passionate letters exchanged between the two.įollowing Burns’s departure from Edinburgh in 1788, the bard’s relationship with Agnes suffered owing to his reunion with and eventual marriage to Jean Armour, not to mention an affair with Jennie Clow, Agnes’s maid, which resulted in a child. Burns met Agnes (1758–1841) in Edinburgh when she arranged an introduction to the bard by a mutual friend, Miss Erskine Nimmo. The song was written in 1791 and sent in a letter to Mrs Agnes McLehose (addressed as ‘Nancy’ in this instance). Ae Fond Kiss is one of Robert Burns’s most famous love songs, one that outlines not the joy that love can bring but the acute pain of a broken-heart.
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