Writer of pieces in passing?

• Gray was one
• Gray is one for example appearing in computer catalogue?
• Bard for the bereaved
• Thomas Gray was one
• The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
• Thomas Gray, e.g

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elegist \El"e*gist\, n. A write of elegies. --T. Warton. [1913 Webster] ||

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A writer of funeral songs; one who writes in elegiac verse.