The poem Tom submitted for the writing contest had a mournful, elegiac tone. From LearnThat.org.
An elegiac lament for youthful ideals. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An elegiac poem on a friend's death. 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
This elegiac Graham is the subject of our cover this week. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor's Desk] Reference
Marsiya, an elegiac poem in honour of the martyred Husain. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] 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
On his plane ride home, long before the results were in, McCain sounded an elegiac note. From Wordnik.com. [President-Elect Obama] Reference
Though handsomely elegiac, this long prelude feels as generalized as a picture postcard. From Wordnik.com. [Summer's Mane Event] 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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