elegy

Here one shepherd is sighing, there another is lamenting; there love songs are heard, here despairing elegies. One will pass all the hours of the night seated at the foot of some oak or rock, and there, without having closed his weeping eyes, the sun finds him in the morning bemused and bereft of sense; and another without relief or respite to his sighs, stretched on the burning sand in the full heat of the sultry summer noontide, makes his appeal to the compassionate heavens, and over one and the other, over these and all, the beautiful Marcela triumphs free and careless.

'Lycidas' is one of the supreme English elegies; though the grief which helps to create its power sprang more from the recent death of the poet's mother than from that of the nominal subject, his college acquaintance, Edward King, and though in the hands of a lesser artist the solemn denunciation of the false leaders of the English Church might not have been wrought into so fine a harmony with the pastoral form.

'Twixt doleful songs, tears, and sad elegies, Such as old grandames, watching by the dead, Are wont to outwear the night with.

Roman love elegies focus on the love affair of the upper-class male poet and his beautiful beloved, the elegiac puella.

The events of Karbala are narrated during these gatherings while marsia and noha, elegies mourning the martyrdom of the Holy Prophet's (PBUH) grandson, are also recited.

'The elegies (Marsiya) of both epic writers will live [forever] as this form of poetry [reflects] the universal message of Karbala,' she maintained.

(4) Leonard Frey was among the first to note that Satan's speeches, although not true elegies, also use the formulae of exile that Stanley Greenfield had begun to codify.

When I browsed the Cardiff bookshops and flipped through the Welsh literary mags, I was impressed with the quality, but it did seem to me there were a lot of elegies.

L., Marlowe's Ovid: The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon, Farnham, Ashgate, 2014; hardback; pp.

(17) In Bologna in particular, Filippo Ceffi's and Domenico da Montichello's translations of the Heroides, as well as the elegies written by Giovanni Filoteco Achillini in his Viridario, popularized the genre.

Although Stapleton points out that there is no actual evidence for the common assertion that the Elegies is early, he argues for an early date on the grounds that Marlowe's "plays and poetry sometimes quote the translation or run variations on its themes in a way that suggests it preceded everything else" (28).

At the same time, the poem is a meditation on the cultural identity of Estonia that may remind one of the somewhat Rilkean diction of Ivar Ivask's Baltic Elegies (see WET, Summer 1990, 499).