Woman returns after clear message (delivered starkly?)

• Thomas Gray, e.g.
• The author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
• Gray, for one
• Thomas Gray, for one
• Poet like Thomas Gray
• Writer of pieces in passing?
• Rilke, for one
• Writer of sad poems
• Thomas Gray, e.g

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