Song from Arcadia: “My True Love Hath My Heart” | Student's Blog

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Notes which I just copied and pasted from the internet and my personal notes.

Poet: Sir Philip Sydney

 

My true-love hath my heart and I have his, 

By just exchange one for the other given: 

I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; 

There never was a bargain better driven. 

His heart in me keeps me and him in one; 

My heart in him his thoughts and senses guides: 

He loves my heart, for once it was his own; 

I cherish his because in me it bides. 

His heart his wound received from my sight; 

My heart was wounded with his wounded heart; 

For as from me on him his hurt did light, 

So still, methought, in me his hurt did smart: 

Both equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss, 

My true love hath my heart and I have his.