Annabel+Lee

** Annabel Lee **

//Edgar Allen Poe //( 1809 – 1849)

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there 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 wingèd seraphs of Heaven

Coveted her and me.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">And this was the reason that, long ago,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">In this kingdom by the sea,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">My beautiful Annabel Lee;

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">So that her highborn kinsman came

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">And bore her away from me,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">To shut her up in a sepulchre

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">In this kingdom by the sea.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Went envying her and me –

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes! – that was the reason (as all men know,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">In this kingdom by the sea)

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">But our love it was stronger by far than the love

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Of those who were older than we –

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Of many far wiser than we –

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">And neither the angels in Heaven above,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Nor the demons down under the sea,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">In her sepulchre there by the sea –

<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: baseline;">In her tomb by the sounding sea.