Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) – ‘My True Love Hath My Heart’ with Wendy Cope’s response

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This sonnet is a song from Sidney's long pastoral romance: ‘Arcadia’. The speaker of the poem in Book III of the ‘Arcadia’ is a shepherdess, pledging her love for her betrothed, a shepherd who rests in her lap.
Poet Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent in 1945.
Music: Lachrimae, or Seven Tears - 6. Lachrimae amantis; composed by John Dowland (1563–1626), an English Renaissance composer, lutenist, and singer. (musopen.org)
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