Annabel Lee

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 my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the wing'd 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	
So that her highborn kinsmen came	
   And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre	
   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 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 there by the sea,
   In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Authorship

by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) , "Annabel Lee"

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) , "Annabel Lee"
by Alfred Hiles Bergen , "Annabel Lee", op. 15 no. 1, published 1926. [medium voice and piano]
by R. E. Best , "Annabel Lee", published 1858.
by Jane W. Bruner , "Annabel Lee", published 1870.
by Robert Bryan , "Annabel Lee", published 1922 [alto and piano], note: also set in Welsh
by Alfred Carder , "Annabel Lee" [voice and piano]
by Don Dilworth , "Annabel Lee", published 1964.
by Robert Doellner , "Annabel Lee", op. 15, published 1930 [voice and piano], note: words have been adapted - textual variant not (yet) noted
by E. F. Falconnet , "Annabel Lee" [voice and piano]
by Bernard Farebrother , "Annabel Lee"
by John Habash , "Annabel Lee", published 1963 [SATB chorus], note: words adapted by Edna Lewis
by E. Joslin Hall , "Annabel Lee", published 1914. [voice and piano]
by Charles Swinnerton Heap (1847-1900) , "Annabel Lee", published 1880. [voice and piano]
by Joseph (or Josef) Charles Holbrooke (1878-1958) , "Annabel Lee", op. 41b, published 1906. [tenor or baritone and piano or orchestra]
by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879-1962) , "Annabel Lee", 1910. [reciter with piano]
by Herbert Janowsky , "Annabel Lee", published 1965. [tenor and mixed chorus a cappella]
by Anita W. Kerr , "Annabel Lee", published 1961.
by Ernest Richard Kroeger (1862-1934) , "Annabel Lee", op. 65 (Ten songs) no. 7, published 1906 [voice and piano], note: also set in German
by Frederick St. John Lacy (1862-1935) , "Annabel Lee", op. 2, published 1887 [tenor, chorus and orchestra], cantata
by Alice Law , "Annabel Lee", published 1909. [voice and piano]
by Al Lerner , "Annabel Lee", published 1957, note: words adapted by Vic Corpora
by Henry David Leslie (1822-1896) , "Annabel Lee" [voice and piano]
by William Charles Levey (1837-1894) , "Many a year ago", published 1866. [voice and piano]
by George W. Marston (1840-1901) , "Annabel Lee", published 1891. [tenor or baritone and piano]
by W. R. McQuown , "Annabel Lee", published 1869. [voice and chorus and piano]
by W. Meadows , "Annabel Lee"
by Julian Mount, né William Hutchinson , "Many and many a year ago", published 1878.
by A. M. Pares , "Annabel Lee", published 1860. [voice and piano]
by Alton Rinker , "Annabel Lee", published 1968 [satb chorus and piano], arranged by Hawley Ades
by Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir (1874-1952) , "Annabel Lee", published 1914. [men's chorus or SATB chorus a cappella]
by Lance Roberts and by Carl Friend , "Annabelle Lee", published 1964, note: words have been adapted
by Donald R. Rommé , "Annabel Lee", published 1947. [tenor and baritone, TTBB chorus, a cappella]
by Byron Stanley Schiffman , "Annabel Lee", published 1953 [tenor and orchestra], note: also set in French
by Martin Edward Fallas Shaw (1875-1958) , "Annabel Lee", published 1921. [voice and piano]
by Sir Arthur Somervell (1863-1937) , "A kingdom by the sea", published 1901. [voice and piano]
by John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) , "Annabel Lee", published 1931. [medium voice and piano]
by (George) Templeton Strong (1856-1948) , "Annabel Lee", published 1924.
by Beardsley Van der Water , "Annabel Lee", published 1891. [partsong]
by Max Wilhelm Karl Vogrich (1852-1916) , "Annabel Lee", published 1890 [duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano (or tenor and baritone) with piano], from Sechs Duette für Sopran und Mezzosopran (oder Tenor und Bariton) mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 4, Leipzig, Hofmeister, also set in German
by Richard Henry Walthew (1872-1951) , "Annabel Lee", published 1923.
by Willoughby Hunter Weiss (1820-1867) , "It was many and many a year ago"

by Byron Stanley Schiffman , "Annabel Lee", published 1953 [tenor and orchestra], note: also set in English

by Eduard Levy (1862-1921) , "Annabel Lee", op. 33, published 1900 [baritone and piano], Berlin, Stahl
by Max Wilhelm Karl Vogrich (1852-1916) , "Annabel Lee", published 1890 [duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano (or tenor and baritone) with piano], from Sechs Duette für Sopran und Mezzosopran (oder Tenor und Bariton) mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 4, Leipzig, Hofmeister, also set in English

Text added to the website: 2004-06-04.

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Annabel Lee

Il y a mainte et mainte année, 
dans un royaume près de la mer, 
vivait une jeune fille, que vous pouvez 
connaître par son nom d'ANNABEL LEE: 
et cette jeune fille ne vivait avec aucune autre 
pensée que d'aimer et d'être aimée de moi.

J'étais un enfant, et elle était un enfant 
dans ce royaume près de la mer ; 
mais nous nous aimions d'un amour qui était 
plus que l'amour, - moi et mon ANNABEL LEE ; 
d'un amour que les séraphins ailés 
des cieux convoitaient, à elle et à moi.

Et ce fut la raison que, il y a longtemps, - 
un vent souffla d'un nuage,
glacant ma belle ANNABEL LEE ; 
de sorte que ses proches de haute lignée vinrent, 
et me l'enlevèrent, 
pour l'enfermer dans un sépulcre, 
en ce royaume près de la mer.

Les anges, pas à moitié si heureux aux cieux, 
vinrent, nous enviant, elle et moi - 
Oui ! ce fut la raison (comme tous les hommes le savent
dans ce royaume près de la mer) 
pourquoi le vent sortit du nuage la nuit, 
glaçant et tuant mon ANNABEL LEE.

Mais, pour notre amour, il était plus fort 
de tout un monde que l'amour 
de ceux plus âgés que nous ; - 
de plusieurs de tout un monde plus sages que nous, - 
et ni les anges là-haut dans les cieux, - 
ni les démons sous la mer ne peuvent jamais disjoindre 
mon âme de l'âme de la très-belle ANNABEL LEE.

Car la lune jamais ne rayonne sans m'apporter 
des songes de la belle ANNABEL LEE ; 
et les étoiles jamais ne se lèvent 
que je ne sente les brillants yeux de la belle ANNABEL LEE ; 
et ainsi, toute l'heure de la nuit, je repose 
à côté de ma chérie, - de ma chérie, - 
ma vie et mon épousée, dans ce sépulcre 
près de la mer, dans sa tombe près de la bruyante mer.

Authorship

by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) , title unknown, from Les Poèmes d'Edgar Poe, published 1889

a text in English by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) , "Annabel Lee" GER

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Byron Stanley Schiffman , "Annabel Lee", published 1953 [tenor and orchestra], note: also set in English

Text added to the website: 2007-12-14.