elegy

For in this moving elegy to innocence, the wayward boy was always fated to become a tragic hero.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Threaded with fiddle, piano and lead vocal by his son Jaime, “Nashville Skyline” is an elegy for Nashville’s rapacious gentrification as well as a love lost to time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026

“Bread of Angels” is also an elegy, not just for lost loved ones but for times, places and even physical things.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025

"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

Bendix: “It was English. Mrs. Nally never cares if you’re late. Seriously, ask her. We were doing the metaphysical poets. Would you be in a rush to get yourself some pastoral elegy of John Donne?”

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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

Especially via elegies for men lost in battle over the past 250 years, the poems measure and celebrate the cost of nationhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

"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

Alqama,40 the elegies, the inscriptions, and other matters.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson