elegie

His Astrophel is a tender "pastoral elegie" upon the death of the most noble and valorous knight, Sir Philip Sidney; and is better known for its subject than for itself.

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

As though it were a presentiment, I wrote this elegie in Venice six weeks before Wagner's death.

Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

Except the world itself, so great as she, in "A funerall elegie upon the death of George Sonds Esquire who was killed by his brother Mr. Freeman Sonds the 7 of August 1658."

In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

Another of his more simple poems is what Spenser would call an 'elegie or friend's passion' on a player on fiddle or pipes, Thomas O'Daly, that gives him a touch of kinship with the poets who have mourned their

Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892