Define elegy. elegy synonyms, elegy pronunciation, elegy translation, English dictionary definition of elegy. a mournful or melancholy musical composition or poem written as a lament for one who is dead: The organist played a beautiful elegy at the memor
as has often enough been suggested. (Of the incorrect arguments advanced about Johnson there seems no end.) People who play this line should be made to look up Johnson's definition of Elegy." 1) A mournful song; 2) A funeral song; 3) A short poem without points or turns." In short...