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 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 highborn kinsman 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 the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee

U carstvu na žalu sinjega mora -
pre mnogo leta to bi -
življaše jednom devojka lepa
po imenu Anabel Li;
i samo jedno joj beše na umu
da se volimo mi.

U carstvu na žalu sinjega mora
deca smo bili mi,
al volesmo se više no iko
ja i Anabel Li,
ljubavlju s koje su patili žudno
nebeski andjeli svi.

I zato, u carstvu na morskome žalu,
pradavno ovo se zbi
poduhnu vetar nocu sa neba,
sledi mi Anabel Li
i dodjoše od mene da je odnesu
njezini rodjaci svi,
u grob na morskome je spustiše žalu
da vecni sanak sni.

Andjele zavist je morila što su
tek upola srecni ko mi
da! zato samo ( kao što znaju
u carstvu onome svi)
poduhnu vetar sa neba i sledi
i ubi mi Anabel Li.

Al mi nadjacasmo ljubavlju one
što stariji behu no mi -
što mudriji behu no mi -
i slabi su andjeli sve vasione
i slabi su podvodni duhovi zli
da ikad mi razdvoje dušu od duše
prelepe Anabel Li

Jer vecite snove, dok Mesec sjaj toci,
snivam o Anabel Li
kad zvezde zaplove, svud vidjam ja oci
prelepe Anabel Li
po svu noc ja tako uz dragu pocivam,
uz nevestu svoju, uz život svoj snivam,
u grobu na žalu, tu ležimo mi,
a more buci i vri.