Elegy
176 poems
The elegy is the poem of lament and mourning. Elegies from Antiquity to the present day, to read on Loëly.
With What A Calm Serenity She Smooths
David Gray
'Twas lately said in open court
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
A Cinque Port
John Davidson
A death scene
Emily Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
A Death-Parting
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A dream of Death
William B. Yeats
A Farewell
Charlotte Mew
A Farewell
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A Lament
Oscar Wilde
A Lament
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
A Lament For Fair-Haired Donough That Was Hanged In Galway
Isabella Augusta Gregory
A Lamentation For The Death Of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
James Clarence Mangan
A Love Song from the North
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
A Mother to her sick Child
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
A Parting Song
Felicia Hemans
A Poem Written In Time Of Trouble By An Irish Priest Who Had Taken Orders In France
Isabella Augusta Gregory
A Private
Edward Thomas
A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
Dylan Thomas
A reminiscence
Anne Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
A Vision
Oscar Wilde
Alas, So Long!
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
All souls'eve
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Among Those Killed In The Dawn Raid Was A Man Aged A Hundred
Dylan Thomas
An End
Christina Rossetti
At Christmas Time
Dora Sigerson Shorter
At Twilight
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
Autumn: A Dirge
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Before Marching and After
Thomas Hardy
Bion
Andrew Lang
Book XI - On this the ghost of Teiresias went back to the house of Hades
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XI - When Proserpine had dismissed the female ghosts
Homère
L'Odyssée
Book XXIV - Sad Helen next in pomp of grief appears
Homère
L'iliade
Break, break, break
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Canto I - Oh, known the earliest, and esteemed the most!
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Canto IV - The Niobe of nations! there she stands
George Gordon Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Choriambics -- I
Rupert Brooke
Christmas 1888
Emily Jane Pfeiffer
Come not when I am dead
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Consumption
William Cullen Bryant
Cupid Slain
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Day That I Have Loved
Rupert Brooke
Death's Game
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Dedication to Malcolm Nicolson
Adela Florence Nicolson
Dirge
Felicia Hemans
Dirge - In sorrow of her bereavement
Sarojini Naidu
The Bird of Time
Dirge Of The Dead Sisters
Rudyard Kipling
During Wind and Rain
Thomas Hardy
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
Encouragement
Emily Brontë
Epitaph
David Gray
Epitaph On The Lady Mary Villiers
Thomas Carew
Eulalie
Edgar Allan Poe
Farewell
Adela Florence Nicolson
Farewell to Poesy
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Feroke
Adela Florence Nicolson
Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing
James Joyce
Chamber Music
Gertrude, Or Fidelity Till Death
Felicia Hemans
Gone, Gone Again
Edward Thomas
Gwalia Deserta II
Idris Davies
He Never Smiled Again
Felicia Hemans