Lines on the Fall of Fyers Near Loch-Ness
The Fyers rushes through heathy hills and ragged woods, strikes rocky mounds, and plunges down in a whitening sheet. Mist and spray obscure a cavern as the river struggles through a gap and churns below.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Nature Poetry, Descriptive Poetry · 148 words
First lines
Written with a Pencil on the Spot.
Among the heathy hills and ragged woods / The roaring Fyers pours his mossy floods; / Till full he dashes on the rocky mounds, / Where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds. / As high in air the bursting torrents flow, / As deep recoiling surges foam below, / Prone down the rock the whitening sheet descends, / And viewles Echo's ear, astonished, rends. / Dim-seen, through rising mists and ceaseless show'rs, / The hoary cavern, wide surrounding lours: / Still thro' the gap the struggling river toils, / And still, below, the horrid cauldron boils-
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The verse describes a waterfall's rushing water, surrounding hills and woods, rocks, mist, and spray.
- Descriptive Poetry — Rhyming couplets trace the river's descent through the sounds of roaring water and the sight of whitening falls and foaming surges.
Tags
waterfalls · rivers · mist · rocky landscapes · nature poetry
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Descriptive Poetry
- Length: 148 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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