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 We loved with a love that was more than a love I and my Annabel Lee With a love that the wingèd seraphs of heaven above Coveted her, and me Annabel Lee Annabel Lee Well this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, Chilling and killing my beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a marble tomb In this kingdom by the sea. Annabel Lee Annabel Lee Well the angels, not half so happy in heaven were Went envying her and me 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 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 of the night-tide, I lie down by her side In her sepulchre by the sounding sea. O my darling, my darling My life and my bride In her tomb there by the sea In her tomb there by the sea In her tomb there by the sea In her tomb there by the sea My Annabel Lee Annabel Lee