Meanings of funeral elegy in английском

Better a crust of bread than a funeral elegy.

For his own poetical spirit, according to the funeral elegy written some two hundred and fifty years after his death, a great honour was reserved:-

Besides his dramatic pieces, he published many occasional poems, addressed to his patrons, and some funeral elegies on the deaths of his friends.

"Do you recollect John Norton's funeral elegy on Ann Bradstreet, the Eve of our female minstrelsy?"

Of all the different species of poetry now in use I find the Funeral Elegy to be most universally admired and used in New England.