elegy

When the qualifying window for Tokyo ended on June 29, several media outlets published articles that read like elegies on the competitive career of an athlete who embodied what is perhaps the greatest conundrum in contemporary sports.

Instead, we see just flashes of the carnage and human toll as the song ascends into an elegy sung by Snyder favorite Allison Crowe.

I hope this is not an elegy in the sense that what it represents is not lost but it could become an elegy.

White Nights By Fyodor Dostoyevsky White Nights is also an elegy to a love that never was.

Part ghost story, part noir, part elegy, Bag of Bones is a compelling read about loss and family.

It was a species of brief elegy to the memory of Turenne, whom the French soldier still regarded as his tutelar genius.

The next day he composed a beautiful elegy upon “the sister of the prisoner.”

The principal classes of lyric poetry are the song, the ode, the elegy, and the sonnet.

A 'byplay' bearing the same name follows an elegy upon the death of an only son.

Mopsus laments his death; Menalcas proclaims his divinity; the whole eclogue consisting of an elegy and an apotheosis.