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“But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—”
- Source
- Annabel Lee
- Date
- 1849
Meaning of “But we loved with a love that was…”
The speaker remembers an idealized youthful bond whose intensity becomes inseparable from grief after Annabel Lee’s death.
Where does it come from?
“Annabel Lee,” written near the end of Poe’s life and published in 1849, represented by Poetry Foundation. The quotation is first-person lyric speech by the poem’s narrator inside a highly stylized elegy; its supernatural claims about angels and enduring souls remain poetic imagery.