Elegy

[El·e*gy]

An elegy is a sad poem, usually written to praise and express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a speech at a funeral is a eulogy, you might later compose an elegy to someone you have loved and lost to the grave.

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A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

Noun
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead


n.
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.


Elegy

El"e*gy , n.; pl. Elegies . [L. elegia, Gr. , fem. sing. (cf. , prop., neut. pl. of a distich in elegiac verse), fr. elegiac, fr. a song of mourning.] A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation. Shak.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

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