as in laments
a composition expressing one's grief over a loss
"O Captain! My Captain!" is Walt Whitman's elegy on the death of President Lincoln
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“Elegies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elegies. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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