He proposes a poem to be called "Elegiac Stanzas to a Sucking Pig," and of "Alice Fell" he writes that "if the publishing of such trash as this be not felt as an insult on the public taste, we are afraid it cannot be insulted."

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.

This penitential behaviour, in the opinion of some, was the occasion why all his brethren neglected him, and did not bestow on his memory one elegiac song, nor any of the rites of verse.

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

The result is a certainty of design, a somberness of atmosphere, and an intensity of feeling, such as are found in elegiac poetry.

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

This work is one of the three great elegies of a literature that stands first in elegiac poetry.

Nine years before the appearance of the 1842 volume of Tennyson's verse the poet's bosom friend, Arthur Hallam, died at an immature age at Vienna, and his death was the subject of much brooding in noble, elegiac verse, written, as was Milton's 'Lycidas,' to commemorate the loss of one very dear to the poet.

The high thought, philosophic reflection, and passionate religious sentiment that mark the whole work, added to the exquisiteness of the versification, place it wellnigh supreme in the literature of elegiac poetry.

Adj. burried &c v.; burial, funereal, funebrial^; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary^; elegiac; necroscopic^. Adv.

[Footnote 2: Sellar, Horace and the Elegiac Poets, p. 123.

She concluded in the following elegiac strain, which did not fail to touch our sympathies.

She concluded in the following elegiac strain, which did not fail to touch our sympathies.

Everywhere else the ideas of contrast appear and the enjoyment of nature is elegiac or satiric.

Skelton, poet-laureat to Henry VIII. lamented his death in some elegiac lines.

The Elegiac Stanza, or the form of verse most commonly used by elegists, consists of four heroics rhyming alternately; as, "Thou knowst | how trans | -port thrills | the ten | -der breast, Where love | and fan

The poem being in the elegiac stanza, Dryden relapsed into an imitation of "Gondibert," from which he had departed ever since the "Elegy on Cromwell."

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.

The crickets have stopped singing, and the garden is sad with elegiac blooms.

"Nought so sweet as melancholy," sings an old poet, and, while the melancholy of the exercise is undoubted, there is at the same time an undeniable charm attaching to those moods of imaginative retrospect in which we summon up shapes and happenings of the vanished past, a tragic charm indeed similar to that we experience in mournful music or elegiac poetry.

189, n. 1; 'Tyburn's elegiac lines,' ib.: See EXECUTIONS.

This poem is not in hexameter, but in elegiac verse; and though, on account of its brevity, we could not expect that it would have been separately published, it is to be found very commonly at the end of the works of Lactantius; for example, in three editions before me, Basil.

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.

THEOGNIS, an elegiac poet of Megara; flourished in the second half of the 6th century B.C.; lost his possessions during a revolution at Megara, in which the democrats overpowered the aristocrats, to which party he belonged; compelled to live in exile, he found solace in the writing of poetry full of a practical and prudential wisdom, bitterly biased against democracy, and tinged with pessimism.

TIBULLUS, ALBIUS, Roman elegiac poet, a contemporary of Virgil and Horace, the latter of whom was warmly attached to him