Summary

The poem starts with a direct address, as the speaker uses the titular line, “i carry your heart with me” (1), to situate their connection with a loved one. They are communicating the unity they feel with their lover, to the degree of containing a second heart in their own heart. The speaker is “never without” (2) their lover, since the two hearts are always together, in going and doing.

The speaker is fearless, “(for you are my fate,my sweet)” (6), and finds all their desire wrapped up in their lover, “(for beautiful you are my world,my true)” (7). They compare the greatness of their love to the meaning of the moon and the singing of the sun, both symbols common symbols in Cummmings’s love poems.

This connection is unknowable to anyone but them, “the deepest secret nobody knows” (10). At the same time, it is...