I Carry Your Heart with Me
I Carry Your Heart with Me - meaning Summary
Devotional, Intimate Unity
This poem is a direct declaration of intimate, undivided love. The speaker insists the beloved and the self are inseparable, so that actions, fate, and perception belong jointly to both. Simple, expansive metaphors—world, sun, moon, tree of life—stretch this personal attachment into cosmic significance. The poem frames this union as a hidden, sustaining truth that gives meaning and steadiness to existence, repeated and sealed in the final line.
Read Complete Analysesi 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 it's 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 the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
It is a beautiful poem that I often recite to remind myself how blissful love can be with your soul mate.