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Meanings of elegy in inglés
An instrumental piece, lamenting the loss of someone deceased.
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Usage of elegy in inglés
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In his elegy upon Marathon he carried away the prize from Æschylus.
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The second movement was an elegy on the death of a child.
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The song passed gradually into an elegy, plaintive and full of pain.
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The first poem he completed in America was an elegy for W.B.
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Now this stirring elegy will be premiered at the Galway Arts Festival.
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They are parted, she, woman-like, dies, and he, man-like, sings an elegy.
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M. Cremazie's elegy on 'Les Morts' is worthy of even Victor Hugo.
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The following year she set about writing an elegy for him.
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And they went in silence, thinking in the epic elegy of their time.
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It is in this brutal formula that all ancient elegy is summed up.
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A chaotic but curiously beautiful, relaxed elegy in often glorious prose.
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And now-noRoman elegy- Iwillhide her away in my memory:
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy John Le Carré A thrilling elegy for post-imperial Britain.
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Recent new-Hebrew poetry has shown itself strongest in satire and elegy.
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I cry the elegy of such notions as are possible to boys alone.
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He is no longer the singer of elegy but of ecstasy.
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