Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
1809 to 1849
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It was many and many a year ago,
In kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than love and be loved by me.
I was a and she was a child,
In this kingdom by sea,
But we loved with a love that was than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
the wind came out of the cloud by night,
and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it stronger by far than the love
Of those who older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.