Elegy

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 eleg?e) may be a type of musical work, usually in a sad and somber attitude. Some notable elegies include:

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• The Elegies of Propertius
• Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• 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:

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• ?l?gie, Op. 24, Gabriel Faure
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Elegiac: Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter is a dactylic hexameter and pentameter following....

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Elegy

Elegy for a Dead Admiral

Part of the Manuscript of Elegy by Thomas Gray