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Annabel Lee - Edgar Allan Poe

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe.

When I was 16, my mother presented me with this book. I was a young novice poet, writing and brooding about broken hearts and love and wounds and teen angsty things...and I loved the dark words of my (then) favorite poet, Edgar Allen Poe. I learned from a friend that today he'd be 201 years old. My little antique book was published in 1882...I don't think I own anything else that is quite that old, or a possession that I've had quite as long. My little Poe book has moved with me more times…

" For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee" - Poe I started a small series of paintings based on the poem "Annab... Annabel Lee

[i-xxxvi] p., 2\U+fffd\., 3-225 [1]p., 1\U+fffd\. 20 cm

"And this maiden, she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me..." This poem still brings me to tears. Love Poe.