Poems of Places Oceanica Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Coogee. COOGEE. SING the song of wave-worn Coogee, — Coogee in the distance white With its jags and points disrupted, gaps and fractures fringed with li... more »ght! Hannt of gledes and restless plovers of the melancholy Ever lending deeper pathos to the melancholy gale. There, my brothers, down the fissures, chasms deep and wan and wild, Grows the sea-bloom, one that blushes like a shrinking, fair, blind child; And amongst the oozing forelands many a glad green rock-vine runs, Getting ease on earthy ledges sheltered from December Often, when a gusty morning, rising cold and gray and strange, Lifts its face from watery spaces, vistas full with clondy change ; Bearing up a gloomy burden which anon begins to wane, Tading in the sndden shadow of a dark determined rain; Do I seek an eastern window, so to watch the breakers Round the steadfast crags of Coogee, dim with drifts of driving sleet: Hearing hollow mournful noises sweeping down a solemn shore While the grim sea-caves are tideless and the storm strives at their core. Often when the floating vapors fill the silent autumn leas, Dreamy memories fall like moonlight over silver, sleeping seas, Youth and I and Love together! — other times and other themes Come to me unsung, unwept for, through the faded evening gleams; Come to me and touch me mutely, — I that looked and longed so well, Shall I look and yet forget them ? who may know or who foretell? Though the southern wind roams, shadowed with its immemorial grief, Where the frosty wings of winter leave their whiteness on the leaf? Friend of mine beyond the waters, here and there these perished days Haunt me with their sweet dead faces and their old divided ways. You that helped and you that loved me, take t...« less