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 nnabel  ee!
 t 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.
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.
nd 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 kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
 he 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.
 ut 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.
 or 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 the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Bio-bibliographical note about Edgar Allan Poe:
"Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts in January 1809, the son of travelling actors. There is no record of his father after 1810 and his mother died in 1811. Edgar was taken into the household of a Virginian merchant, John Allan, whose name he adopted.
Poe's relationship with his foster father was put under great strain when, in 1826, Allan refused to support him financially at Virginia University. Poe went to Boston where he published Tamerlane and other poems anonymously but it was not well received.
In 1830 Poe was briefly reconciled with Allan and entered West Point living on a small allowance from Allan. The truce did not last and Poe got himself dishonourably discharged in 1831. He lived with his aunt, Mrs Clemms, in Baltimore where he began to publish stories in magazines.
In 1836 he married his thirteen-year-old cousin Virginia Clemms. Much of his early work went unnoticed and it was 1840 before Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published. His Tales and The Raven and Other Poems, published in 1845 did bring him some recognition but it was not enough to sustain his family financially. Mrs Clemms and Virginia nearly starved to death one winter.
After his wife's death in 1847 Poe became increasingly unstable. He attempted suicide in 1848 and died in 1849, five days after being found in a delirious and semi-conscious condition in Baltimore."
Source: Penguin Web Site
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NOTE 2:
The song in background is an old love song from Jay & the Americans,"Walking in the Rain" in 1969. You will find the lyric of this song by clicking the "Lyrique" button.
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