Annabel Lee - A Poem By Edgar Allan Poe

"Annabel Lee" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of the love between the speaker and a young woman named Annabel Lee. The angels were jealous of the relationship between Annabel Lee and the speaker; they sent a chilling wind to kill Annabel Lee, whose family buried her in a tomb by the sea. The poem is a lyric poem that reveals as much about the speaker’s distraught mental state as it does about the tragic event he narrates.

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Annabelle Lee a poem by Edgar Allan Poe It was many and many a year ago in the kingdom by the sea that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of Annabelle Lee and this maiden 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 love with a love that was more than love I and my Annabelle Lee with a love that the winged serapis of heaven coveted 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 Annabelle Lee so that her highborn kinsman came and bore her away from me to shut her up in the sepulcher in this kingdom by the sea.

The angels not so happy in heaven when 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 Annabelle 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 disfever my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabelle Lee for the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabelle Lee and the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabelle Lee and so all the night tide I lie down beside my darling my darling my life and my bride in her sepulcher there by the sea in her tomb by the sounding sea