Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe 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. she was a child and i 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. and this was the reason that, long ago, in this kingdom by the sea, a wind blew out of a cloud by night chilling my annabel lee; so that her high-born kinsman came and bore her away from me, to shut her up in a sepulchre in this kingdom by the sea.