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Inspired by the poem by Edgar Allan Poe

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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
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2272x1704px 338.75 KB
Make
Samsung Techwin co., Ltd.
Model
Digimax A402
Shutter Speed
1000/30000 second
Aperture
F/3.5
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Jan 4, 2005, 2:24:16 AM
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cospa's avatar
Oh, yes...I'm very moved. Emotively, this is my favorite poem (technically, my second favorite.)

"But we loved with a love that was more than love,
"I and my Annabel Lee."
I have several copies of it; my favorite is in "The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe".New York. Random House. 1938. With a wonderful introduction by Hervey Allen, and edited by Bennett Cerf (I collect books.)

If I'm not being too forward: I would be honored, and delighted, to collaborate on a series of pictures to bring this poem to life. You have a wonderful look in your "classically vulnerable" series that you could use to construct the poses. I know a lot of photographers and might be able to recruit some to take shots for us, and I would minipulate them together.

It would be a long range project, I'm thinking, but well worth the effort.

I hope you'll consider it.

Dann