Annabel Lee

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,

    In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden lived whom you may know

    By the name of ANNABEL LEE;—

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

    Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and She was a child,

    In this kingdom by the sea,

But we loved with a love that was more than love—

    I and my ANNABEL LEE—

With a love that the wingéd seraphs of Heaven

    Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

    In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud by night

    Chilling my ANNABEL LEE;

So that her high–born kinsmen came

    And bore her away from me,

To shut her up, in a sepulchre

    In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

    Went envying her and me;

Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,

    In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud, chilling

    And killing my ANNABEL LEE.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

    Of those who were older than we—

    Of many far wiser than we—

And neither the angels in Heaven above

    Nor the demons down under the sea

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

    Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE:—

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

    Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;

And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes

    Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;

And so, all the night–tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride

    In her sepulchre there by the sea—

    In her tomb by the side of the sea.

1849.