Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
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Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe
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 wingèd 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 highborn 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 night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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I am happy to have brought it to you!Aelihe wrote:I bought a poetry book filled with Edgar Allen Poe's work. I had never read this one before and stumbled upon it while I was browsing through it. I love it so much! I used to read so many times so I could remember it.
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I don't feel like this poem is creepy at all. It's a romantic notion to me. Love lasts on forever.anomalocaris wrote:Creepy! Entirely creepy! But then, most of Poe's work was. I know he was a successful humorist before he became known for his horror, but it's hard to imagine.
As for not being able to imagine him as a humorist...comedy, in and of itself, is a tragedy.
"Funny had better be sad somewhere."-Jerry Lewis.
Comedians are some of the most dark and desturbed of us.
It takes alot of damage to make a person go " huh, I think I'll go make people laugh at me today".
Comedy, no matter how innocent, is a raw, bloody wound in the comedians life.
Just what I've observed.
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Grief is just love with no place to go.
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Poe was truly a genius wordsmith. His poem, The Bells is universally considered the finest "sound poem" in the English language. It is appropriate that this forum is titled Poetry & Music where this poem (Annabel Lee) is concerned because its lyricism and meter approach the characteristics of music.
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It's just sad and messed up that it's about the death of his child bride who he'd been married to for thirteen years and whose life was taken by the very same disease that stole his first love, birth and adoptive mother away from him too.
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