elegy
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“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
“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
Released in 1976, less than a year after the ship’s sinking, his folk ballad became an instant hit, turning a regional disaster into an international elegy.
From Slate ● 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
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
His dreamy impressions of London? an anathema on the streets, and its hearts of stone? murmurs against poverty? dark elegies on fate?
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
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"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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