Haunted Houses
"Haunted Houses" is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that explores how every home where people have lived and died remains inhabited by invisible presences. The speaker moves through rooms thick with silent phantoms — not terrifying, but familiar, drifting along stairways and gathered at tables. Longfellow meditates on how the past presses into the present, how the living and the dead share the same spaces, and how a bridge of light connects our world to the realm of spirits hovering just beyond sight.
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