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.
Three Songs with Piano
by Arthur Somervell, Sir (1863 - 1937)
1. The Bargain  [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. Love's apology  [sung text checked 1 time]
Fain would I change that note To which fond Love hath charm'd me Long, long to sing by rote, Fancying that that harm'd me: Yet when this thought doth come 'Love is the perfect sum Of all delight!' I have no other choice Either for pen or voice To sing or write. O Love! they wrong thee much That say thy [fruit]1 is bitter, When thy [rich]2 fruit is such As nothing can be sweeter. Fair house of joy and bliss, Where truest pleasure is, I do adore thee: I know thee what thou art, I serve thee with my heart, And fall before thee.
Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
- sometimes misattributed to Tobias Hume (c1569 - 1645)
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Hume, Mulholland, Orr, Quilter: "sweet"
2 Hume: "ripe"
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3. Come to me in my dreams  [sung text checked 1 time]
Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For [then]1 the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day. Come, as thou cam'st a thousand times, A messenger from radiant climes, And smile on thy new world, and be As kind to [all the rest as]2 me. Or, as thou never cam'st in sooth, Come now, and let me dream it truth; And part my hair, and kiss my brow, And say - My love! why [sufferest]3 thou? Come to me in my dreams, and then By day I shall be well again! For [then]1 the night will more than pay The hopeless longing of the day.
Authorship:
- by Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), "Longing", appears in Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, no. 6, first published 1852
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems B Fellowes, London, 1852, Page 83.
1 Emery: "so"2 Emery, Fax, and Somervell: "others as to"
3 Bridge and Fax: "suff'rest"
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