A Ditty
Philip Sidney · 1591
Public domain
From The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave. Philip Sidney. The text is free of copyright in the United States. This copy is the poem, without the Project Gutenberg header.
My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one to the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
My true love hath my heart, and I have his.
His heart in me keeps him and me 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:
My true-love hath my heart, and I have his.