Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Published in 1952, “i carry your heart with me , i carry it in” is one of E. E. Cummings’s best known love poems. The speaker feels an intense connection to an unidentified lover, addressing the poem to this person and suggesting that everything in life has become infused with their romance.

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 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 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)