337. Somewhere or other by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Published: Sept. 10, 2008, 11:55 a.m.

b'CG Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nSomewhere or other\\nby Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 \\u2013 1894)\\n\\nSomewhere or other there must surely be\\n The face not seen, the voice not heard,\\nThe heart that not yet\\u2014never yet\\u2014ah me!\\n Made answer to my word.\\n\\nSomewhere or other, may be near or far;\\n Past land and sea, clean out of sight;\\nBeyond the wandering moon, beyond the star\\n That tracks her night by night.\\n\\nSomewhere or other, may be far or near;\\n With just a wall, a hedge, between;\\nWith just the last leaves of the dying year\\n Fallen on a turf grown green.\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 10 September 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'