A macabre love song,1858
words by Edgar Allan Poe
music by E.F. Falconnet
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Benjamin R. Tubb:
Lyrics
It was many a many a year ago
In the kingdom of 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 the kingdom of 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
And this was the reason that, as all men know
In the kingdom of 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 the kingdom of 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 the kingdom of 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 then by the sea
In a tomb by the sounding sea
Sung here by Fred Feild: