My true love hath my heart and I have his. By just exchange, one [for]1 the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss; There never was a [bargain better]2 driven[.]3 His heart in me keeps [me and him]4 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[.]3 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.
Two Songs
Song Cycle by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962)
1. My true love hath my heart  [sung text not yet checked]
Authorship:
- by Philip Sidney, Sir (1554 - 1586), no title, appears in Arcadia
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Der Handel", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936
Parodied in Archibald Stodart-Walker's My true friend hath my hat.
1 Foote: "to"2 Foote, Gounod, Rutter, Wilkinson: "better bargain"
3 Foote: ":/ My true love hath my heart and I have his." (first line is repeated)
4 Foote: "him and me"
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2. The trellis  [sung text checked 1 time]
Thick-flowered is the trellis That hides our joys From prying eyes of malice And all annoys, And we lie rosily bowered. Through the long afternoons And evenings endlessly Drawn out, when summer swoons In perfume windlessly, Sounds our light laughter. With whispered words between And silent kisses. None but the flowers have seen Our white caresses - Flowers and the bright-eyed birds.
Authorship:
- by Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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