Like a Thomas Gray work

• Plaintive; melancholy
• Legacies largely corrupt - sad
• Like some of Thomas Gray's poetry
• Expressing poetic sorrow for something past
• Like Shelley's "Adonais"
• Melancholy
• Sad English stage actor denied rise to tour India
• Wistfully mournful

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The adjective elegiac has two possible meanings. First, it can refer to something of, relating to, or involving, an elegy or something that expresses similar mournfulness or sorrow. Second, it can refer more specifically to poetry composed in the form of ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of, or relating to an elegy. 2 Expressing sorrow or mourning. n. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegy: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter