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Elegy
An
elegy
is a
poem
of mourning, from the Greek
elegos
, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. Some notable elegies include:
Thomas Gray
's
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
(
http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc
)
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
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