The poem Tom submitted for the writing contest had a mournful, elegiac tone.    From LearnThat.org. 

An elegiac poem on a friend's death.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

An elegiac lament for youthful ideals.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

His surviving poems are all written in elegiac couplets, with the exception of the Metamorphoses, which is in hexameters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 56] Reference

It is in Latin elegiac verse, and as being directed against ambition and discontent may be compared with the first satire of Horace.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour] Reference

Irina recounted Rostov’s history in elegiac tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape to Old Russia] Reference

A great variety of verses is used in the epitaphs, but the dactylic hexameter and the elegiac are the favorites.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature] Reference

If he took a certain elegiac tone, you know what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Ebert Responds to His Profile in Esquire | /Film] Reference

When the book appeared in the UK at the beginning of the year, the word 'elegiac' figured in many of the reviews it got.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enigma Variation] Reference

M. in Edinburgh, in Latin elegiac verfe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ...] Reference

In other words, Larkin is a one-man symptom for the kind of elegiac recession identified by Williams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference

The half-hour was underscored with music in a kind of elegiac, Aaron Copland mode -- sorrow and stature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Peter Bogdanovich's elegiac film of Paul Theroux's novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movies: Wes Anderson] Reference

Marsiya, an elegiac poem in honour of the martyred Husain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Islam] Reference

This elegiac Graham is the subject of our cover this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Editor's Desk] Reference

Still, Gordon's spare, lyrical filmmaking casts an elegiac spell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wars Domestic And Military] Reference

Admirable also are the elegiac distichs of Watson's Hymn to the Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of English Versification] Reference

The inscriptions upon these tombs are early records of the elegiac spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference

GoldengroveBOOK: Francine Prose's elegiac story of a grieving 13-year-old girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Guide to the Fall's Hottest Reads] Reference

For all its elegiac appeal, McNally's play essentially shows the band playing on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Names, Small Stages] Reference

They recognize it as soon as they hear it as this elegiac, wonderful piece of music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Barber At 100, Reconsidered] Reference

This memoir of intellectual life in the '30s and' 40s is both mean-mouthed and elegiac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies Abounding] Reference

Though handsomely elegiac, this long prelude feels as generalized as a picture postcard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summer's Mane Event] Reference

On his plane ride home, long before the results were in, McCain sounded an elegiac note.    From Wordnik.com.  [President-Elect Obama] Reference

Not to mention all those who have fallen under the spell of Evelyn Waugh's opulent, elegiac 1945 novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Can Go Home Again] Reference

Erăto, presided over elegiac or amorous poetry, and dancing, whence she was sometimes called Saltatrix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference

I certainly wouldn't wax elegiac about words like scoundrel and wretch, not with the baggage they carried.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madoff: A Scoundrel Or A Sociopath?] Reference

The elegiac tone creeps into both his book and his conversation -- only to be chased off by his indignation.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Naughty! Haughty! It's Anti-Multi-Culti!] Reference

It is the Baskerville impression of the elegiac poets, -- Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius: Birmingham, 1772.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

You don't know what tough love can mean until you see the devastating conclusion of this elegant, elegiac epic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surprise, Surprise!] Reference

The verse, whether narrative or elegiac, runs in rhythmical periods; the sense is not "concluded in the couplet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

Mr. BURLESON: And it sort of floats up into the heavens at the end, which is very appropriate for an elegiac piece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haimovitz And Burleson: A Classic 'Odd Couple'] Reference

This candy-colored fable treads a fine line between the wacky and the elegiac, and doesn't always keep its balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reeling In A 'Fish'] Reference

In some of these poems the tragedy becomes lyrical, and two kinds of imagination, epic and elegiac, are found in harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference

The movie's elegiac ending, where Ennis hugs the shirt of his dead lover, will now take on an even more bittersweet aftertaste.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Untimely Death] Reference

There's fear and horror, of course, but also boredom and excitement; some are direct and descriptive, others poetic and elegiac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tonight's TV highlights] Reference