Read full poem →Hence hymning Tyburn's elegiac lay,
Hence the soft sing-song on Cecilia's day.
Dictionary Entry
A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
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Poetry examples for “elegiac”
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Read full poem →Elegiac Stanzas on the Death of Sir Peter Parker, Bart.
First published, _Morning Chronicle_, October 7, 1814 417
Read full poem →Latin Lines, addressed to Mr. West, from Genoa . . . 188
Elegiac Verses, occasioned by the sight of the Plains
Read full poem →Among the scenery
Celebrated by that great Lyric and Elegiac Poet.
He died in 1771,
Read full poem →Placed by Wordsworth among his "Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces."--Ed.
Read full poem →This poem was included among the "Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces."--Ed.
Read full poem →For much in reference to John Wordsworth, which illustrates both these
'Elegiac Verses', and the poem "On the Naming of Places" which follows
them, I must refer to his 'Life' to be published in another volume of
Read full poem →himself to the poem. There is a certain fitness, however, in this poem
being placed--as it now is--in sequence to the 'Elegiac Verses' in
memory of John Wordsworth, beginning, "The Sheep-boy whistled loud," and
Read full poem →Pass of Wordsworth's parting from his brother John--and to carry out a
wish the poet seems to have hinted at in the last of his elegiac
verses in memory of that parting--is now being put into effect. It has