'I have sent you by the Gisbornes a copy of the Elegy on Keats.

D.K.R. PROLOGUE Beginneth the Book called Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta, sent by her to Ladies in Love.

But I think the most perfect imitation of Johnson is a professed one, entitled A Criticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country Church-Yard, said to be written by Mr. Young, Professor of Greek, at Glasgow, and of which let him have the credit, unless a better title can be shewn.

Life and Death in closest juxtaposition, the hymn in honour of the Prophet's birth blending with the elegy to the dead.

Modelled on the opening of Bion's Elegy for Adonis.

It has some resemblance to the more simple and touching phrase in the Elegy by Moschus (p. 65): 'Ye flowers, now in sad clusters breathe yourselves away.' +Stanza 17+, 1. 1.

" COLUMN VI ESCAPE OF TAMMUZ FROM HADESHIS DEATH IN THE CLOUDSFUNERAL PROCESSION OF THE GODSISHTAR'S ELEGY OVER THE DEATH OF TAMMUZHIS REVIVAL IN HADES, WHERE HE IS CROWNED AS THE LORD OF HADESISHTAR'S RETURN BRINGS LIGHT AND LOVE BACK TO EARTH.

The curse of birth is, I think, simply the calamitous condition of mundane lifeso often referred to in this Elegy as a condition of abjection and unhappiness.

Today I received twenty-one of Propertius' elegies from Knebel and shall look them over carefully and then let the translator know where I find anything to object to; for, as he has given himself so much trouble, nothing ought, perhaps, to be altered without his sanction.

The Gisbornes having acknowledged the Elegy with expressions of admiration, the poet replied as follows: 'Bagni [di Pisa], July 19.

Remembering his promise to show me again his Marienbad Elegy at a fitting opportunity, Goethe arose, put a light on the table, and gave me the poem.

In a biographical notice of Dr. Sparke, it is stated that he was among the thirteen candidates when the competition took place for the best translation of Gray's Elegy into Greek.

Or an elegy like this: "No joy without her, and yet with her only sorrow.