Somewhere or Other

Christina Rossetti * Track #98 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

Somewhere or Other by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

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This is a poem full of yearning for a fulfilling love; a universal aspiration. In Victorian times an unmarried woman had low status; spinsterhood was regarded as social failure, and there were few opportunites for satisfying alternatives. Christina Rossetti was engaged twice and pursued by other a...

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Somewhere or other there must surely be
The face not seen, the voice not heard,
The heart that not yet--never yet--ah me!
Made answer to my word.

Somewhere or other, may be near or far;
Past land and sea, clean out of sight;
Beyond the wandering moon, beyond the star
That tracks her night by night.

Somewhere or other, may be far or near;
With just a wall, a hedge, between;
With just the last leaves of the dying year
Fallen on a turf grown green.

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