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I'm sorry if this annoys anyone.
I'm trying to find a poem for my grandmother
she told me that the firstg few lines are:

many many years ago
in cottage sea
lived little mother just passing 63

she had an only daughter
by the name of Anna Lee
who went away for e'er to stay
despite her mother's plea

if anyone recognizes this poem please let me know. i havent found anything in my searches all day... its depressing, i didnt think it was going to be this hard

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.

A lovely poem indeed ~ one of my favorites by Edgar Allan Poe :]

ooh, I absolutely love that poem!

yeah i think that one might be it, my greatgrandmother is very old but i just dont want to give up like that because there may actually be a poem more like the one she told me.
"Annabel Lee" is very similar in the first stanza but not really in the second which is why i think the poems might be different.

Madeline;

I think it may be an adaption of the Poe work... possibly a song lyric.

The problem is that there have been so many adaptions (note: the list on this site is not exhaustive)
that it would be hard to narrow it down.

If I had to guess, I'd start to look between the mid to late 1950's... (Frankie Laine recorded a version in 1957) and the early to mid sixties.

The words (like 'in a cottage by the sea' and 'lived a little mother just passing 63') have a cadence typical of the ballads (lyrics were often ad libbed in club & concert venues) during that time.

thank you so much! i hadnt thought of that but it does make sense because the words are extremely similar to Poe's poem