Crossword-Solution: ELEGY 5 letters, 192 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Elegy n. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of
lamentation.

We have 192 clues for the answer “ELEGY”

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"Adonais" is one 1 answer
"Adonais," e.g. 1 answer
"Adonais," for example. 1 answer
"Beowulf," essentially 1 answer
"Forbidden Fruit" Dutch metalers 1 answer
"In Memoriam," e.g. 1 answer
"In memory of ... " poem, e.g. 1 answer
"Lycidas," for example. 1 answer
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," for one 1 answer
"___ Written in a Country Churchyard" 1 answer
*Gray wrote one in a country churchyard 1 answer
A lament. 1 answer
As I Lay Dying song about a mournful poem? 1 answer
As I Lay Dying song of lament? 1 answer
Bryant's "Thanatopsis," for one 1 answer
Cemetery poem 1 answer
Cemetery sermon 1 answer
Churchyard piece 1 answer
Country churchyard words, maybe 1 answer
Doleful poem 1 answer
Donne creation 1 answer
Donne work 1 answer
Formal lament 1 answer
Funeral poem often invoked in black metal song titles 1 answer
Funereal composition 1 answer
Gray poem 1 answer
Gray's "___ Written in a Country Churchyard" 1 answer
Gray's "churchyard" poem, e.g. 1 answer
Gray's brought him praise 1 answer
Gray's churchyard opus 1 answer
Gray's churchyard poem 1 answer
Gray's claim to fame 1 answer
Gray's greatest 1 answer
John Milton's "Lycidas" is one 1 answer
Lament for one buried in cathedral 1 answer
Lament in verse 1 answer
Lamentation in verse 1 answer
Lamentation lines 1 answer
Lamenter's verse 1 answer
Lamenting poem 1 answer
Lamenting song 1 answer
Lamenting verse 1 answer
Lines of grief? 1 answer
Lyric lamentation 1 answer
Lyrical lament 1 answer
Melancholy composition 1 answer
Melancholy poem 1 answer
Melancholy verse 1 answer
Melancholy work 1 answer
Memorial tribute in verse 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ELEGY (5)

This is as far as it can be from the case of the spontaneous village minstrel dear to elegy, who has no theory whatever, although sometimes he may have fully as much poetry as Whitman.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
Another poet of the period, with a very different purpose, has left an elegy, in which he darkly hints at and bemoans the fate of the ill-starred young person, whose very uncommon calamity Whitelaw, Dunlop, and Milne thought a fitting subject for buffoonery and ribaldry.
The Bride of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott 1996
Among the exile's chance acquaintances was a sparrow, whose elegy he also sings, comparing the bird to Lesbia's sparrow, much to the latter's disadvantage.
Ponkapog Papers Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1996
They were an Elegy to Mary, and were very beautiful, I read them aloud, and when I had finished she thanked me and said she had no doubt that if I pleased I could put them into Welsh—she then sighed and wiped her eyes.
Wild Wales George Borrow 1996
Then they played more, at the request of the guests,—first an elegy by Ernst, and then various other pieces.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1996

Quotes with ELEGY (3)

A word is elegy to what it signifies.
Robert Haas
Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
Leonard Cohen
Did you tell them that you made love to the poet? Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?
Danabelle Gutierrez & Until The Dreams Come
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 336 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).