Annabel Lee

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 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, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman 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 on 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 by night,
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 feel 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 the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe

Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

A Dream Within A Dream,
Beloved Physician, Bells,
The Divine Right Of Kings,
Elizabeth, Spirits of the Dead,
Epigram for Wall Street,
The Haunted Palace,
Romance, To One In Paradise,
The Valley of Unrest

Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical
creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant
of many things which escape those
who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered weak and weary...
Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point
is excessively discussed because it
is obscure; in the ninety-nine
remaining it is obscure because it
is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe

A gentleman with a pug nose is
a contradiction in terms.
Edgar Allan Poe

All that we see or seem is but
a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Romantic Love Quotes
Love and Romance Greeting Cards
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How Do I Love Thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Bianca Among the Nightingales Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Cry of the Children
Grief Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
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