Bells and Other Poems

<h2><i><SPAN name="ANNABEL_LEE"></SPAN>ANNABEL LEE</i></h2> <p class="poem"> It was many and many a year ago,<br/> <span class="ind25">In a kingdom by the sea,</span><br/> That a maiden there lived whom you may know<br/> <span class="ind25">By the name of <span class="smcap">Annabel Lee</span>;</span><br/> And this maiden she lived with no other thought<br/> <span class="ind25">Than to love and be loved by me.</span><br/> <br/> I was a child and <i>she</i> was a child,<br/> <span class="ind25">In this kingdom by the sea;</span><br/> But we loved with a love which was more than love&mdash;<br/> <span class="ind25">I and my Annabel Lee;</span><br/> With a love that the wingèd seraphs of heaven<br/> <span class="ind25">Coveted her and me.</span><br/> <br/> And this was the reason that, long ago,<br/> <span class="ind25">In this kingdom by the sea,</span><br/> A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling<br/> My beautiful Annabel Lee;<br/> So that her highborn kinsmen came<br/> <span class="ind25">And bore her away from me,</span><br/> To shut her up in a sepulchre<br/> <span class="ind25">In this kingdom by the sea.</span><br/> <br/> The angels, not half so happy in heaven,<br/> <span class="ind25">Went envying her and me&mdash;</span><br/> Yes!&mdash;that was the reason (as all men know,<br/> <span class="ind25">In this kingdom by the sea)</span><br/> That the wind came out of the cloud by night,<br/> <span class="ind25">Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.</span><br/> <br/> But our love it was stronger by far than the love<br/> <span class="ind25">Of those who were older than we&mdash;</span><br/> <span class="ind25">Of many far wiser than we&mdash;</span><br/> And neither the angels in heaven above,<br/> <span class="ind25">Nor the demons down under the sea,</span><br/> Can ever dissever my soul from the soul<br/> <span class="ind25">Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.</span><br/> <br/> For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams<br/> <span class="ind25">Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;</span><br/> And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes<br/> <span class="ind25">Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;</span><br/> And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side<br/> Of my darling&mdash;my darling&mdash;my life and my bride,<br/> <span class="ind25">In her sepulchre there by the sea,</span><br/> <span class="ind25">In her tomb by the sounding sea.</span><br/></p> <hr class="r65" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />