Clarinda' was he pseudonym adopted by Agnes McLehose, an educated woman whom Burns met in Edinburgh in 1787, and who was separated from her husband James McLehose, a Glasgow lawyer. The lovers ...
This poem was written for Agnes McLehose in December 1787 in response to the lady's own verse, 'From Clarinda on Mr B--- saying he had 'nothing else to do'. 'Clarinda' was the pseudonym adopted by ...