Careful Words

haunted (adj.)

Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 88.

The sounding cataract

Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock,

The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,

Their colours and their forms, were then to me

An appetite,—a feeling and a love,

That had no need of a remoter charm

By thoughts supplied, nor any interest

Unborrowed from the eye.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.

From haunted spring and dale

Edg'd with poplar pale

The parting genius is with sighing sent.

John Milton (1608-1674): Hymn on Christ's Nativity. Line 184.