My True Love Hath My Heart And I Have His by Sir Philip Sidney

Published: Feb. 12, 2008, 9:47 a.m.

b'Sidney read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n\\n My True Love Hath My Heart And I Have His \\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.'