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Example sentences for: elegy

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The new lyrics (by Bernie Taupin), she says, are "as facile and pretty as a souvenir thimble"; the apparently hot new genre of pop elegy, she adds, is tacky.
And "Ode to a Nightingale," which meditates on suicide, is an elegy for himself: "Now more than ever seems it rich to die,/ To cease upon the midnight with no pain."
I said, "Dear Larry," as I put down his book, Elegy ,
Unique in the annals of Johnsoniana is a full treatment of Dr. Robert Levet, an unlicensed practitioner who was a valued member of Johnson's peculiar household, and Wiltshire's close reading of Johnson's elegy on Levet is welcome and commendable.
The seven-part title poem is both an elegy for her and a poem about her island, Walcott's "mother-country."