The Haunted Chamber - Poem By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - video Dailymotion

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Librivox reading of "The Haunted Chamber" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, accompanied by creepy music.   Read by Kristin Hughes (1974 - 2021)   Audiobook source: https://librivox.org/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-collection-001/

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00:00Each heart has its haunted chamber, where the silent moonlight falls.

00:16On the floor are mysterious footsteps, there are whispers along the walls.

00:23And mine at times is haunted by phantoms of the past, as motionless as shadows by the

00:30silent moonlight cast.

00:33A form sits by the window that is not seen by day, for as soon as the dawn approaches

00:40it vanishes away.

00:43It sits there in the moonlight itself as pale and still, and points with its airy finger

00:51across the windowsill.

00:54Without, before the window, there stands a gloomy pine, whose boughs wave upward and downward,

01:02as wave these thoughts of mine.

01:05And underneath its branches is the grave of a little child, who died upon life's threshold,

01:14and never wept nor smiled.

01:17What are ye, O pallid phantoms, that haunt my troubled brain, that vanish when day approaches,

01:27and at night return again?

01:30What are ye, O pallid phantoms, but the statues without breath, that stand on the bridge overarching

01:39the silent river of death?

The Haunted Chamber - Poem By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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