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An elegy is a poem of mourning.

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• Art
• Literature
• Film and television
• Music
• Classical
• Popular bands
• Albums
• Songs

Elegy, Elegie, or Elegies may also refer to:

Art

• Élégie, a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Literature

• Any poem written in elegiac couplets
• Elegies by Propertius (ca. 50-15 BC)
• Elegy, a 1586 poem by Chidiock Tichborne
• "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", a 1751 poem by Thomas Gray
• Elegy, the opening poem in Leonard Cohen’s first collection Let Us Compare Mythologies from 1956.

Film and television

• Elégia, a 1965 film by Hungarian director Zoltán Huszárik
• Elegy (film), a 2008 film by Spanish director Isabel Coixet
• Elegies (film), a 2023 documentary by Hong Kong director Ann Hui
• "Elegy" (The Twilight Zone), an episode of The Twilight Zone
• "Elegy" (The X-Files), an episode of The X-Files

Music

Songs

• "Elegy", a suite by Chicago from their 1971 album Chicago III
• "Elegy", a song by Patti Smith from her 1975 album Horses
• "Elegy", a song by Jethro Tull from the 1979 album Stormwatch
• "Elegy", a song by Conception from their 1991 album The Last Sunset
• "Elegy", a song by Edge of Sanity from their 1994 album Purgatory Afterglow
• "Elegy", a song by As I Lay Dying from their 2003 album Frail Words Collapse
• "Elegy", a song by Becoming the Archetype from their 2005 album Terminate Damnation
• "Elegy", a song by Intronaut from the 2010 album Valley of Smoke
• "Elegy", a song by Fleshgod Apocalypse from the 2013 album Labyrinth
• "Elegy", a song by Seventh Wonder from the 2022 album The Testament
• "Elegy", a song by Architects from the 2025 album The Sky, the Earth & All Between
• "Elegies", a song by Make Them Suffer from the 2012 album Neverbloom
• "Élégie", an arrangement of Massenet's Élégie by Art Tatum

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