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My favourite poem - by E.E Cummings "I carry your heart with me"



I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)


By E. E. Cummings





I carry your heart with me (I carry it in


my heart).

I am never without it (anywhere


I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done


by only me is your doing, my darling).






                                                      I fear


no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want


no world (for beautiful, you are my world; my true)


and you are whatever a moon has always meant


and whatever a sun will always sing is you






Here is the deepest secret nobody knows


Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud


and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows


higher than soul can hope or mind can hide...




...and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart


I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)


“[I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)]” Copyright 1952, © 1980, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust, from Complete Poems: 1904-1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Used by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.





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