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.

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 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, chilling
	My beautiful 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,
	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 by night,
	Chilling and killing my Annabel 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 dissever my soul from the soul 
	Of the beautiful Annabel Lee

For the moon never beams, without 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 nighttide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling-my darling-my life and my bride,
	In the sepulchre there by the sea-
	In her tomb by the sea.