Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Plockton | | In Plockton | | Cora Kennedy Aitken |
| | | A WILD, blue sea traversed by furious winds; | |
| Dark islands to the stormy surface blown; | |
| Rough coasts where heather stains the swarthy stone. | |
| Beating upon the rocks fierce rain begins; | |
| A willow group low in the valley spins | 5 |
| And reels and dances like a demon thing. | |
| Masses of mountains, gloomy at the base, | |
| With silvery sides and tops of misty gold, | |
| Magnificently gathered in their place, | |
| Rise girt about with splendor manifold: | 10 |
| Enchanted skies thrown vast and glittering | |
| Above the winds and rains that rush below. | |
| Horizons where the rainbows to and fro | |
| Pass over clouds of darkness and of snow. | | | | |
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