Edgar Allan Poe

 

THE POETRY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE

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 highborn 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 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

 

 

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Edgar Allan Poe

LISTED ALPHABETICALLY

A

Al Aaraaf
Alone
Annabel Lee

B

The Bells
Bridal Ballad

C

The City in the Sea
The Coliseum
"The Conqueror Worm" (From Ligeia)

D

A Dream
Dreamland
Dreams
Dream Within a Dream

E

Eldorado
Elizabeth
An Enigma
Eulalie
Evening Star

F

Fairyland
For Annie

H

"The Happiest Day"
The Haunted Palace
Hymn
Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius

I

Imitation
"In Youth I Have Known One"
Israfel
"In the Greenest of Our Valleys"(From The Fall of the House of Usher)

L

The Lake
Lenore

R

The Raven
Romance

S

"Sancta Maria!"(From Morella)
Serenade
Silence
The Sleeper
Sonnet - To Science
Song
Spirits of the Dead
Stanzas

T

Tamerlane
To ...
To ...
To F...
F...s. S. O...d
To M...
To Marie Louise (Shew)
To M. L. S.
To my Mother
To Helen
To Helen
To One Departed
To One in Paradise
To the River
To Zante

U

Ulalume

V

A Valentine
The Valley of Unrest