Elegy
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Elegy was originally used for a type of poetic metre (Elegiac metre), but is also used for a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. The English word "eulogy" is derived from it. In addition, an elegy (sometimes spelled elegíe) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. Some notable elegies include:
- The Elegies of Propertius
- Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc)
- Edmund Spenser's Astrophel
- John Milton's Lycidas
- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs
- William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis
- Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
- Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam
- Chidiock Tichborne's Elegy
Musical Elegies: