Read full poem →Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his Hope the melancholy burden bore
Of 'Never--nevermore.'"
Dictionary Entry
A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. dirgesover dirgesdirges funeraldirges singingdirges singdirges sangdirges mournful
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Poetry examples for “dirges”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Of all times,
Best I like the ocean's dirges,
When the old harper heaves and rocks,
Read full poem →Aloud and cheerfully,
'Say on, sweet Sphinx! thy dirges
Are pleasant songs to me.
Read full poem →'Nor up the Lawn, nor at the Wood was he.
'The next with Dirges due in sad Array
'Slow thro' the Church-way Path we saw him born.
Read full poem →"The next, with dirges due in sad array,
Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne.
Read full poem →With the waiting depot, the arriving coffin, and the sombre faces,
With dirges through the night, with the thousand voices rising strong
and solemn,
Read full poem →Must I change my triumphant songs? said I to myself,
Must I indeed learn to chant the cold dirges of the baffled?
And sullen hymns of defeat?