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Definition of Elegy
1. Noun. A mournful poem; a lament for the dead.
Definition of Elegy
1. n. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Definition of Elegy
1. Noun. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. ¹
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Definition of Elegy
1. a mournful poem for one who is dead [n -GIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elegy
Literary usage of Elegy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poems of John Donne by John Donne, James Russell Lowell, Grolier Club (1895)
"CHANGE 83 elegy IV. THE PERFUME 84 elegy V. Hia PICTURE 87 elegy VI 88 elegy VII
... THE EXPOSTULATION 112 elegy XVII 114 To HIS MISTRESS GOING TO BED 118 ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"In the first strophe Sion is the object, in the second, a strophe of equal length,
the subject of the elegy. In lie, according to the ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"But the most interesting of the poems to his memory is ' A Funeral elegy on the
... (Five transcripts of this elegy of the seventeenth century are extant ..."
4. The Works of Robert Fergusson by Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1851)
"In the elegy not rather a magnificent expansion of the present stanza, with
scattered suggestions from other lines of the elegy ..."
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