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
- 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