ANNABEL LEE

ANNABEL LEE

It was many and many years ago,
In the 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 the kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love,
I and my Annabel Lee,-
With the love the the winged seraphs of heaven
Converted her and me.

And this was the reason that long ago,
In the kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling,
My beautiful Annabel Lee:
So that her high-born kinsmen came,
To shut her up in a sepulchre,
In the 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 the kingdom by the sea,
That the wind came out of the cloudy by the 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;
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul and the soul
Of my 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 her sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.