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FAMOUS SONGS
work of this kind, so I shall proceed with the different histories as they come convenient to hand. The supremely touching words of " An-nabel Lee" were wrested from the torn heart of the melancholy, morbid Edgar Allan Poe, by the early death of the girl who so swiftly cap-tured and tamed, for a time, the wild spirit of the misguided and misjudged poet " Annabel Lee" was the poetic name bestowed by Poe on his cousin, Virginia Clemm, who became his wife in 1836. She was a beautiful girl, for whom he possessed and always cherished the sweetest and tenderest feelings. He strained every nerve to provide a home for her and for her mother, who continued with him and Virginia, and to care for them and to assist them all through the few years of their married life, and who, even after the death of the idolized wife and daughter—she died in 1847—acted the part of a mother in the noblest sense of the word to the bereaved poet. If Virginia had lived, there is no doubt that Poe would have been a far dif-ferent man; as it was, the greater portion of his life was a mistake, intensified by a highly ner-vous temperament and weak impulses; but his name will never die, for " Annabel Lee," one of the least of his poems, is alone sufficient to secure the applause of all posterity. The poem
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