And David read, as a poet can read, first Andre de Chenier's Idyll Neerc, then Le Malade, following on with the Elegy on a Suicide, another elegy in the classic taste, and the last two Iambes.英文原著 · 《Two Poets》
"'Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new; Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Tricked in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.'"英文原著 · 《Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson》
Though many an unsung elegy Sleeps in the reeds our rivers hold, O goat-foot God of Arcady! Ah, what remains to us of thee?英文原著 · 《Charmides and Other》
In the autumn of 1369, then, the Duchess Blanche died an early death; and it is pleasing to know that John of Gaunt, to whom his marriage with her had brought wealth and a dukedom, ordered services, in pious remembrance of her, to be held at her grave. The elaborate elegy which--very possibly at the widowed Duke's request--was composed by Chaucer, leaves no doubt as to the identity of the lady whose loss it deplores:--英文原著 · 《Chaucer》
Together both on the high lawns appeared. Under the opening eyelids of the morn They drove afield. ELEGY ON LYCIDAS.英文原著 · 《Chronicles of the Canongate》