Definitionadj. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
Last update: August 25, 2015
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Gray's poetry is elegiac. [Please select]
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The elegiac poem brought everyone to tears during the funeral. [Please select]
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When Amy looked at the elegiac greeting card, she realized how much Greg missed her. [Please select]
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30-15 B.C.), the greatest of the elegiac poets of Rome, was born of a well-to-do Umbrian family at or near Asisium (Assisi), the birthplace also of the famous St Francis. [Please select]
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Henceforward there is audible in the King's letters a curiously elegiac note. [Please select]
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"Spare us your elegiac tones," said the Parrot giggling. [Please select]
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The inscriptions upon these tombs are early records of the elegiac spirit. [Please select]
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Elegiac poetry has an honorable place in Roman literature. [Please select]
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The high thought, philosophic reflection, and passionate religious sentiment that mark the whole work, added to the exquisiteness of the versification, place it wellnigh supreme in the literature of elegiac poetry. [Please select]
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John Cotton wrote some elegiac verses; Justin Winsor has emphasized the honor which is still paid to the name of John Alden in Duxbury and Plymouth: [Footnote: History of Duxbury; Winsor. [Please select]
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