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

If you do so while laying off workers and depleting the offerings at the cinema, well, that Tudum sound can be a herald, or it can be an elegy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 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

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

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

His elegies were highly esteemed by the Romans; they were imitated or translated by Cornelius Gallus and also by the emperor Tiberius.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various