Living

The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Little Girl)

by Carolyn Wells 1862–1942

From The Re-echo Club

Living

'Twas not very many years ago,
At Seahurst-By-The-Sea,
A little girl had a little curl--
Her name was Annabel Lee.
And right in the middle of Annabel's brow
That curl would always be.

She was so good, oh, she was so good
At Seahurst-By-The-Sea!
She was good with a goodness more than good,
Was beautiful Annabel Lee,
With such goodness the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her of me.
But her badness was stronger by far than the good,
Like many far older than she,
Like many far wiser than she;
And neither the angels in heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever the good from the bad
In the soul of Annabel Lee,
The beautiful Annabel Lee.

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A parody by Carolyn Wells, written in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe as a contribution to the imagined Re-Echo Club (Little Girl).

MLA

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Little Girl).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/269/.

Chicago

Wells, Carolyn. “The Re-echo Club: as by Edgar Allan Poe (Little Girl).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wells_c/269/.

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