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.

英语中,名词+ed往往有相应形容词用法
white hair + ed = white-haired 白发的
one eye + ed = one-eyed 一只眼的
cold blood + ed = cold-blooded 冷血的
the winged seraphs = 长了翅膀的seraph

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 kinsmen came
And bore1 her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
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 beams2, 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 sepulcher there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding3 sea.

Footnotes

  1. To take or bring (a person) with oneself; to conduct. Bear them to my house. ↩

  2. to produce a stream of light and/or heat; The morning sun beamed down on us. Light beamed through a hole in the curtain. ↩

  3. giving (loud) sound ↩