Write a lament about

• Commemorate in verse
• Speak for the dead
• Compose as did Gray
• Mourn poetically
• Write a funeral poem, perhaps

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1702, "write an elegy," from elegy + -ize . Transitive sense is from 1809. Related: Elegized ; elegizing .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elegize \El"e*gize\, v. t. To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. --Carlyle.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. compose an elegy [syn: elegise ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To compose an elegy (for someone) 2 To praise (someone) as if in an elegy