One such small voice Ann 'Lisbeth Connors added to the great threnody of industry.

We are not called upon to sing threnodies over it, still less to attempt to galvanize a semblance of life into it.

It will be a just judgment on you; and small will be to you the consolation should some poetical friend pen an epigrammatical threnody to your memory, telling in "In Memoriam" stanzas how you "went up like a thousand of bricks.

Aye, look at our modern men given up largely to threnody-chiming and to polishing off tea and muffin with elderly females, and compare them, say, for instance, with The poet Praed's immortal Vicar, Who wisely wore the cleric gown, Sound in theology and liquor; Quite human, though a true divine, His fellow-men he would not libel; He gave his friends good honest wine, And drew his doctrine from the Bible.

Adonais is a wonderful threnody, or a song of grief, over the death of the poet Keats.

This universal human interest, together with its exquisite form and melody, makes the poem, in popular favor at least, the supreme threnody, or elegiac poem, of our literature; though Milton's Lycidas is, from the critical view point, undoubtedly a more artistic work.

Then from the copse beyond the orchard there sounds the mournful threnody of the owl.

; languishment^; condolence &c 915. mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and ashes; lachrymatory^; knell &c 363; deep death song, dirge, coronach^, nenia^, requiem, elegy, epicedium^; threne^; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade^; ullalulla^. mourner; grumbler &c (discontent) 832; Noobe; Heraclitus.

Oh, come with saddest, weirdest melody, Join earth and sky in one sweet threnody!" Ten thousand times ten thousand now in line, In all the panoplies of gods divine; A million crowns are shining in the light, A million sceptres, robes of purest white!

Not that I would not have it so; not that I believe the grief of woman to be less real and sincere than man's, though it be enjoyed; not that I would have her thrum a long mournful threnody on the harpstrings of her heart, and waste on the dead, who need them not, affections which, Heaven knows, the living need too much.

Poliziano poured forth his sorrow in a Latin threnody of touching and simple beauty.

Not the least touching is Luigi's own threnody, which starts upon this note: Idol mio, che la tua leggiadra spoglia Mi lasciasti anzi tempo.

They were like the negroes, who from their first transplantation from Africa to America had put their plaints and mystification in strange and affecting threnodies and runes.

Among Lord Derby's ancillary qualifications were his musical voice, his fine English style, and his facility in apt and novel quotation, as when he applied Meg Merrilies's threnody over the ruins of Derncleugh to the destruction of the Irish Church Establishment.

Threnody for the slain.

Nate Salsbury (A); 16Dec59; R247727. Threnody.

Threnody for the slain.

Nate Salsbury (A); 16Dec59; R247727. Threnody.

Emerson's Waldo, for whom Threnody was written was an especial favorite; then "Pickie," Mr. Greeley's beautiful boy, and now a new joy had come into her heart, a child of her own.

The subject of the threnody is a nymph of the name of Dido, whose identity can only be vaguely conjectured.

I stood one summer, friend, beside The foam waves of a distant sea That muttered all the summer through A low sweet threnody.