Annabel Lee

7I was a child and she was a child,

8In this kingdom by the sea,

9But we loved with a love that was more than love—

10I and my Annabel Lee—

11With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven

12Coveted her and me.

13And this was the reason that, long ago,

14In this kingdom by the sea,

15A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

16My beautiful Annabel Lee;

17So that her highborn kinsmen came

18And bore her away from me,

19To shut her up in a sepulchre

20In this kingdom by the sea.

21The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

22Went envying her and me—

23Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,

24In this kingdom by the sea)

25That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

26Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

27But our love it was stronger by far than the love

28Of those who were older than we—

29Of many far wiser than we—

30And neither the angels in Heaven above

31Nor the demons down under the sea

32Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

33Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

34For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams

35Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

36And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes

37Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

38And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

39Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,

40In her sepulchre there by the sea—

41In her tomb by the sounding sea.