Annabel Lee | Text of the Poem

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 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...

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