Mournful English cricket side, by one account

• Legacies largely corrupt - sad
• Like Shelley's "Adonais"
• Like funeral dirges
• Wistfully mournful
• Like some of Thomas Gray's poetry
• Mournful
• Plaintive; melancholy
• Like Berg's "Violin Concerto"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, in reference to lines of verse of a particular construction, from Middle French élégiaque , from Latin elegiacus , from Greek elegeiakos , from eleigeia (see elegy ). In ancient Greece the verse form was used especially with mournful music. Meaning ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\, n. Elegiac verse.