1. ۱It was many and many a year ago,
2. ۲ In a kingdom by the sea,
3. ۳That a maiden there lived whom you may know
4. ۴ By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
5. ۵And this maiden she lived with no other thought
6. ۶ Than to love and be loved by me.
7. ۷
8. ۸_I_ was a child and _she_ was a child,
9. ۹ In this kingdom by the sea:
10. ۱۰But we loved with a love that was more than love--
11. ۱۱ I and my ANNABEL LEE;
12. ۱۲With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
13. ۱۳ Coveted her and me.
14. ۱۴
15. ۱۵And this was the reason that, long ago,
16. ۱۶ In this kingdom by the sea,
17. ۱۷A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
18. ۱۸ My beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
19. ۱۹So that her highborn kinsmen came
20. ۲۰ And bore her away from me,
21. ۲۱To shut her up in a sepulchre
22. ۲۲ In this kingdom by the sea.
23. ۲۳
24. ۲۴The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
25. ۲۵ Went envying her and me--
26. ۲۶Yes!--that was the reason (as all men know,
27. ۲۷ In this kingdom by the sea)
28. ۲۸That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
29. ۲۹ Chilling and killing my ANNABEL LEE.
30. ۳۰
31. ۳۱But our love it was stronger by far than the love
32. ۳۲ Of those who were older than we--
33. ۳۳ Of many far wiser than we--
34. ۳۴And neither the angels in heaven above,
35. ۳۵ Nor the demons down under the sea,
36. ۳۶Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
37. ۳۷ Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.
38. ۳۸
39. ۳۹For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
40. ۴۰ Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
41. ۴۱And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
42. ۴۲ Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE;
43. ۴۳And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
44. ۴۴Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
45. ۴۵ In her sepulchre there by the sea--
46. ۴۶ In her tomb by the side of the sea.