Excerpt - final stanzas of ... by Thomas Gray ... Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth; A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth, And Melacholy marked

elegy poem by Terrie Shattuck ... The night that I cried ... for his lost gray life,

The term elegy was usually used in classical times for love poetry written with a specific meter, and in the Renaissance it kept this sense with some variation.

There are hints throughout Milton's poems of a growing sense of anxiety over belatedness (see Sonnet 19 for example), and Elegy I may be an early attempt at allaying that fear.

Practically our whole tradition of funeral elegy in English, for example, seems to be quite dead, in the poetical sense.

ELEGY FOR A BAD EXAMPLE.(poem) - (Everette Maddox, 1944-1989) If there is no heaven and you are in it, : Encyclopedia.com ... Elegy for the Southern Drawl.(Review); Magazine article from: Poetry ;

(My example, but his general point.) Manjoo points to a Fortune article by Taylor Buley about Facebook, which reveals that ad inventory on ... 9 Responses to “An elegy (of sorts) for Geocities”

One of my Legion of Super-Heroes tales drew its strength from a rereading of "The Star," for example, and [Clarke's] equation of advanced science appearing to be magic pervading our worlds.

one can see how Mailer's political ambitions might have been stirred by Malraux's example.

for an even more recent example, look at those Cardinals teams of the early 2000’s. Seemed like they were favored in the playoffs most years and then went expectations were the lowest,