Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

In honor of National Poetry Month, here is a lovely Dark and Stormy poem.  Enjoy the gothic fabulousness! 

Annabel Lee

By

 Edgar Allan Poe

(published 1849)

  

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. 

She was a child and I 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 by night 

Chilling my Annabel Lee

So that her high-born kinsman came 

And bore her away from me, 

To shut her up in a sepulcher

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 a cloud, 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 see 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 sepulcher there by the sea

In her tomb by the side of the sea.