Wistfully mournful

• Like funeral dirges
• Plaintive, as a poem
• Like a Thomas Gray work
• Like Berg's "Violin Concerto"
• Sad English stage actor denied rise to tour India
• Mournful
• Like some of Thomas Gray's poetry

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

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

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 ...