Sample Sentences for
elegy
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    The poem quoted was an elegy for someone whose funeral offerings had been deliberately neglected.  (source)
    elegy = a poem of mourning
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    The song was both haunting and joyful, the first few notes an elegy for the fading stars.  (source)
    elegy = a sorrowful lament for something lost
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    Our elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith.  (source)
    elegy = a mournful expression of grief or sorrow
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    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)
    elegy = a sorrowful tribute or lament for something lost
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    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)
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    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)
    Elegy = a reflective poem of mourning that meditates on death and on what is lost—including lives’ unfulfilled possibilities
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    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)
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    Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.  (source)
    elegy = a mournful expression of grief or sorrow
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    Here one shepherd is sighing, there another is lamenting; there love songs are heard, here despairing elegies.†  (source)
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    This is not John Milton's "Lycidas" (1637), not a classical elegy in which all nature weeps.  (source)
    elegy = a poem of mourning
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    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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    PART 2 — ELEGY FOR LEFT HAND ALONE MID-1980s-EARLY 1990s.†  (source)
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    After your dire-lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber-window With some sweet consort: to their instruments Tune a deploring dump; the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.†  (source)
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