Elegaic

In the ſame Piece [An Essay upon Poetry] he [John Sheffield, 1st Marquess of Normanby] has alſo laid down very juſt Rules for the forming of Lyric, and Elegaic Poetry; […]

So aſſiduous was this prince [Hipparchus] in cultivating the minds of the people, that he cauſed in city and country, but eſpecially in the latter, ſtatues of Mercury to be ſet up, and certain wiſe counſels in Elegaic verſe to be inſcribed on both ſides of them.

Its haunting, occult bewitchment yearns and throbs in the songs of many poets, and from these wells of wonder and vistas of high romance which California opens for the thirsty souls of the children of America our literature is being enriched—think of […] the murmurous monotone, so full of elegaic tristness, of Charles Warren Stoddard, […]