This elegist records also that, after her second widowhood, she lived a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women Who Came in the Mayflower] Reference

What if the elegist fled his fame, and then had to face one last request for a poem, a request he could neither honor nor ignore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

His transformation into an elegist of the martyrs in such poems as "Easter, 1916," "Sixteen Dead Men," and "The Rose Tree" thus has a particular strangeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Puberty] Reference

Immediately, a character sprang into mind: a professional elegist, someone who gained great fame from writing elegies, a popular poet in the mold of Edgar Guest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference

He can sound like the elegist of rural old imperial England, but he can sting in the present tense too, on matters from Princess Di to the "scream of rocket-burn" in the war on Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Lydon: Sir Andrew Motion: poetry that looks like water and bites like gin] Reference

He can sound like the elegist of rural old imperial England, but he can sting in the present tense too, on matters from Princess Di to the \ "scream of rocket-burn\" in the war on Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Lydon: Sir Andrew Motion: poetry that looks like water and bites like gin] Reference

There were two inquisitors more relentless than the others; first, the little scrubby fellow who claimed for his share all the houris of a Mussulman's palace; another, the great elegist from the provinces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Euripides was a contemporary of Sophocles but not a politician himself; he was an occasional diplomat and elegist of the glorious dead, but his dyspeptic feelings about the world — during a war against Sparta that Athens was beginning to lose — are clear from all his plays, not least this last of Carson's trilogy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:] Reference

In a general way, one may say that he was a great elegist in music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musicians of To-Day] Reference

He would settle himself in an armchair in the smoking-room, his eyes close to the book, and plunge into those dark waters of the gnomic elegist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference

In the former is an elegy for a master elegist, "In Memory of W.H. Auden," including lines that suggest any poet's grateful celebration of a poetic forbear, as Gunn with Greville.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotal Evidence] Reference

Champion always of the mavericks and victims of Empire, the people along its sidelines, she has found herself, willy-nilly, the old order's elegist, wandering around its battlefields to count the dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Hum] Reference

It opens with the solitary voice of the English horn, which gives a notable pathos (read Berlioz on this despairful elegist, and remember its haunting wail in the last act of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

When Time, one elegist said, should dissolve his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference