¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Elegies
1. elegy [n] - See also: elegy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegies
Literary usage of Elegies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature, from the Beginning to the Norman Conquest by Stopford Augustus Brooke (1898)
"CHAPTER X THE elegies AND THE RIDDLES WE have closed the last chapter with the
name of ... These elegies are steeped in regret for the glory of the past, ..."
2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1778)
"Love elegies, tfo. is. 6d. ... elegies, though they do not contain many original
thoughts, nor many lines-above the common level of poetry, yet, ..."
3. The Poems of John Donne by John Donne, James Russell Lowell, Grolier Club (1895)
"elegies UPON THE AUTHOR. TO THE MEMORY OF MY EVEE DESIRED FRIEND DOCTOR DONNE.
... At common graves we have poetic eyes Can melt themselves in easy elegies ..."
Other Resources:
Bosnian