1 Annabel Lee ---By Edgar Allan Poe 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 Annable 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, 2 Chilling my 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 envying her and me -- Yes
— That was the reason (as all