My true love hath my heart (Charles Gounod)

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• (Posted 2023-10-11)  CPDL #76239:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-11).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 229 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: My true love hath my heart
Composer: Charles Gounod
Lyricist: Philip Sidney
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 in Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society, Goddard & Co., London, Volume 1, no. 5
Description: Six New Part-Songs Dedicated to the Royal Albert Hall Choral Society of 1872, No.5

Original text and translations

English text

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.