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Read & copy
“But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—”
Meaning & context
The speaker remembers an idealized youthful bond whose intensity becomes inseparable from grief after Annabel Lee’s death.
Source details
“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.