Ovid, as an immoral writer, was justly punished. Tibullus, also a famous elegiac poet, was born the same year as Ovid, and was the friend of the poet Horace.

Hence Miscellanies spring, the weekly boast Of Curll's chaste press and Lintot's rubric post; Hence hymning Tyburn's elegiac lines; Hence Journals, Medleys, Mercuries, Magazines, Sepulchral lies, our holy walls to grace, And New-year odes, and all the Grub Street race.

His Grace wrote some Epigrams, a great number of lyric pieces, some in the elegiac strain, and others in the dramatic.

" Adonais is a lament for the early death of Keats, and it stands second in the language among elegiac poems, ranking next to Milton's Lycidas.

His Latin elegiac verses addressed to his book, shew a very agreeable turn for raillery.

And the rain's elegiac song, And the white language of the spray, And all the wind meant yesterday Yea!

If elegiac poetry is the expression of subjective emotion, sentiment, and thought, we might class this Persian masterpiece as elegy; but an elegy is a sustained train of connected imagery and reflection.

In the translation of Gray's Elegy there is a more than usual crampness; occasioned, perhaps, by his having rendered into hexameters the stanzas of four lines, to which the elegiac measure of the Romans would have been better suited.

Even in her tragic and bodeful seasons, in her elegiac autumns and stern winters, there is an energy of sorrow and sacrifice that elevates and inspires, and in the darkest hours hints at immortal mornings.

A quatrain consisting of iambic pentameter verse with alternate rhymes is called an elegiac stanza.

Some of his verses are suffused with an elegiac tenderness, as if the woods and fields bewailed the absence of their forester, and murmured their griefs meanwhile to one another,responsive like idyls.

Since with submission loyally I greet And follow out the regimen of RHONDDA, I cannot be considered indiscreet If I essay, but never go beyond, a Brief elegiac tribute to a sway By sterner needs now largely swept away.

It had, I think, an elegiac plaintiveness in it, like a song of old liberty sung in captivity.

Slow, far-reaching, it poisoned the elegiac beauty of the scene, alienated the night, and gave to the fading country-side a yet more ancient look, sombre and implacable.

In the fine elegiac bulletin of the bombarding Prince, "Alas! for thee, Mogador!

Meanwhile in almost every street where a 'tabut' is being prepared elegiac discourses ('waaz') are nightly delivered up to the tenth of the month by a maulvi, who draws from Rs. 30 to Rs.

Few of Dryden's elegiac effusions, therefore, seem prompted by sincere sorrow.

11 In solitude long would he stay, And long lock'd in silence his tongue; Then he humm'd an elegiac lay, Or a Psalm penitential he sung:

The style of verse that lends itself best to Arnold's genius is the elegiac lyric.