elegy
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I have gone back and forth, and I have landed on this: It is an elegy.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Time and Water” is a curiously vibrant elegy, teeming with appreciation for the intimate majesty that is all life, generational and geologic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
The final Cal Hooper installment is an elegy to both a lost girl and a vanishing way of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
"She was at death's door, and she knew I could write, so she asked me to write her an elegy if the worst came to the worst."
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
Another time, in a misprint he hadn’t caught, Roberto’s article had stated that Senator Smathers had delivered an elegy, instead of a eulogy, of Trujillo before the joint members of the United States Congress.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Ashura processions are usually dramatic affairs, with chanters singing elegies or dirges dedicated to Hussein, while audience members beat their chests and engage in displays of mourning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
But amid the elegies written about American capitalism, the latest mini-IPO boom is a welcome tribute to the dynamism of U.S. markets that no other country can match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
"But I felt as if I were writing elegies, actually."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2023
The participants, mostly wearing black clothes, beat their chests and recited elegies in the commercial heart of Srinagar.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Some of the most interesting lyrics of the school are elegies upon his death.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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