Annabel Lee/Edgar Allan Poe & Poemsong byJim Reeves
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 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 sepulcher
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 beautiful Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we,
Of many (who were) 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
The dreams of the beautiful Anabel 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 sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea. |