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.
She was a child and I was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more then 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 kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulcher In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, no 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 the cloud chilling And killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far then the love Of those who were older then we Of many far wiser then 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 with out 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 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. ~by Edgar Allan Poe
This is one of my favorite poem by Poe. The poem is about Poe and his young cousin bride Virginia that died only five years after they got married. It is said that he started writing this even before Virginia died.
makenshi baby · Thu Oct 25, 2007 @ 05:56am · 0 Comments |