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Elegy

An elegy is a poem of mourning, from the Greek elegos, a reflection on the death of someone or on a sorrow generally. Some notable elegies include:

Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=elcc)
John Milton's Lycidas
Percy Bysshe Shelley's Adonaïs
William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis
Walt Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed
Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam

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