The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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ANNABEL LEE.  
It was many and many a year ago,  
In a kingdom by the sea,  
That a maiden 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.  
I was a child and She 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 wingéd 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 sepulchre  
In this kingdom by the sea.  
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,  
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