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title: "Verses to Clarinda"
subtitle: "Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses"
author: "Robert Burns"
form: "Poem"
year: "1788"
location: "Mossgiel"
source: "Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns"
source_url: "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt"
canonical_url: "https://robert-burns.com/poems/verses-to-clarinda/"
---

# Verses to Clarinda

### Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses

## Poem
Fair Empress of the Poet’s soul,  
And Queen of Poetesses;  
Clarinda, take this little boon,  
This humble pair of glasses:

And fill them up with generous juice,  
As generous as your mind;  
And pledge them to the generous toast,  
“The whole of human kind!”

“To those who love us!” second fill;  
But not to those whom we love;  
Lest we love those who love not us—  
A third—“To thee and me, Love!”

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Source: [Project Gutenberg #1279 — Poems and Songs of Robert Burns](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1279/pg1279.txt)  
Canonical HTML: https://robert-burns.com/poems/verses-to-clarinda/