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  • The poem quoted was an elegy for someone whose funeral offerings had been deliberately neglected.†  (source)
  • The payback she'd thought he was due, after his math-class elegy to Josie, had burned in her chest every time she thought about it.†  (source)
  • 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.†  (source)
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  • PART 2 — ELEGY FOR LEFT HAND ALONE MID-1980s-EARLY 1990s.†  (source)
  • Lane and Sorenson were both in Modern European Literature 251 (open to seniors and graduate students only) and had been assigned the Fourth of Rilke's "Duino Elegies" for Monday.†  (source)
  • The song was both haunting and joyful, the first few notes an elegy for the fading stars.†  (source)
  • And there was such a solemn melody, 'Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies,— Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with.†  (source)
  • He later did so, and Andrews' farewell message turned out to be the ninth stanza of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard": The boasts of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.†  (source)
  • To the period of his friendship with Schiller belong the continuation of "Wilhelm Meister," the beautiful idyl of "Hermann and Dorothea," and the "Roman Elegies."†  (source)
  • After the champagne toast on the day he took over the post, the old lion in retirement excused himself for speaking without getting up from the rocker, and he improvised a brief speech that seemed more like an elegy.†  (source)
  • Here one shepherd is sighing, there another is lamenting; there love songs are heard, here despairing elegies.†  (source)
  • This from the Requiescat of Matthew Arnold, an elegy for a woman's spirit, with its concluding line: "Tonight it doth inherit the vasty hall of Death."†  (source)
  • There is a man haunts the forest that abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" on their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns, and elegies on brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger, I would give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the quotidian of love upon him.†  (source)
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