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Answer for the clue "Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," e.g ", 5 letters:
elegy
Alternative clues for the word elegy
- "___ Written in a Country Churchyard"
- Gray matter?
- Funeral poem often invoked in black metal song titles
- Song of sorrow
- Shelley's "Adonais," for one
- Pensive poem, such as "Adonais"
- Pensive piece of poetry
- As I Lay Dying song about a mournful poem?
- Requiem, for example, held in cathedral city
- Reflective writing
Usage examples of elegy.
His Slavophil and reactionary effusions are rather second-rate, but some of the elegies, written in a state of dejection during his sufferings, have genuine human feeling in them without losing any of his verbal splendor.
Mishap to a Queening PawnON SUNDAY, the day after the affair at Lake of Menteith, Lord Culter was also taking aquatic exercise of a kind which all but turned his epithalamics into elegies.
From this ignorance in some, and vanity in others, we see the monthly and diurnal publications abounding with ballads, odes, elegies, epitaphs, and allegories, the non-descript ephemera from the heated brains of self-important poetasters, all ushered into notice under the appellation of SONNET!
He heard elegies to springs on planets which no longer existed, green dances and firelight, wails and halloos, a harvest of conversations without number.