583. My True Love Hath My Heart by Sir Philip Sidney
b'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.'