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by Edgar Allan Poe
(1809-1849)
- She was a child and I 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 winged 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 highborn 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 sounding sea.
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