583. My True Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n--------------------------------------\n\n\n My True Love Hath My Heart \nFrom Arcadia\nby Sir Philip Sidney (1554 \u2013 1586)\n\nMy true-love hath my heart, and I have his,\nBy just exchange one for the other given.\nI hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss:\nThere never was a bargain better driven.\nHis heart in me keeps me and him in one;\nMy heart in him his thoughts and senses guides:\nHe loves my heart, for once it was his own;\nI cherish his because in me it bides.\nHis heart his wound received from my sight;\nMy heart was wounded with his wounded heart;\nFor as from me on him his hurt did light,\nSo still, methought, in me his hurt did smart:\nBoth equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss,\nMy true love hath my heart and I have his.\n\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud, 2008.