Famous Myra Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Myra poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous myra poems. These examples illustrate what a famous myra poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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291. Song—The Captive Ribband

by Robert Burns
 DEAR Myra, the captive ribband’s mine,
 ’Twas all my faithful love could gain;
And would you ask me to resign
 The sole reward that crowns my pain?


Go, bid the hero who has run
 Thro’ fields of death to gather fame,
Go, bid him lay his laurels down,
 And all his well-earn’d praise disclaim.


The ribband shall its freedom lose—
 Lose all the...Read more of this...

1777

by Amy Lowell
 I
The Trumpet-Vine Arbour
The throats of the little red trumpet-flowers are 
wide open,
And the clangour of brass beats against the hot sunlight.
They bray and blare at the burning sky.
Red! Red! Coarse notes of red,
Trumpeted at the blue sky.
In long streaks of sound, molten metal,
The vine declares itself.
Clang! -- from its red and yellow trumpets.
Clang! -- from its long, nasal trumpets,
Splitting...Read more of this...

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