There are 207 Elegy poems
= First appeared in Poetry magazine.A Grammarian's Funeral
By Robert Browning
A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead 
By Kenneth Koch
A Reminiscence
By Anne Brontë
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
By Jonathan Swift
A Sequence of Sonnets on the Death of Robert Browning
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
An African Elegy
By Robert Duncan
An Anatomy of the World
By John Donne
An Elegy for Five Old Ladies
By Thomas James Merton
An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul's, Dr. John Donne
By Thomas Carew
An Epitaph on S.P.
By Ben Jonson
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
By Dylan Thomas
Ave Atque Vale
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Barbara Frietchie
By John Greenleaf Whittier
Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter
By John Crowe Ransom
Buried at Springs
By James Schuyler
Casualty
By Seamus Heaney
Child of a Day
By Walter Savage Landor
City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz
Claribel
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dead Boy
By John Crowe Ransom
Dear Mr. Merrill, 
By Moira Egan
Deathfugue
By Paul Celan
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas
Done
By Michelle Boisseau
Double Elegy
By Michael S. Harper
Duncan
By Thom Gunn
During the Service 
By Carrie Grabo
Elegy
By Miguel Hernández
Elegy
By Lyn Hejinian
Elegy
By Anne Stevenson
Elegy 
By Pierre Martory
Elegy (“Who keeps the owl’s breath?”) 
By David St. John
Elegy Asking That It Be the Last
By Norman Dubie
Elegy for a Soldier
By Marilyn Hacker
from Elegy for My Sister
By Sherod Santos
Elegy for Peter
By Bruce Weigl
Elegy for the Quagga 
By Sarah Lindsay
Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne
Elegy of Fortinbras
By Zbigniew Herbert
Elegy on Toy Piano 
By Dean Young
Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
By Alexander Pope
Elegy V: His Picture
By John Donne
Elegy with a Chimneysweep Falling Inside It 
By Larry Levis
Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs as Refrain
By Dana Gioia
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
By Thomas Gray
Emily Hardcastle, Spinster
By John Crowe Ransom
Encounter
By Czeslaw Milosz
Epigrams: On my First Son
By Ben Jonson
Epitaph
By Katherine Philips
Epitaph
By Elinor Wylie
Epitaph on Elizabeth, L. H.
By Ben Jonson
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
By William Wordsworth
Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
By James Tate
Family History
By Irving Feldman
Father Son and Holy Ghost
By Audre Lorde
Feeding Our Ancient Ancestors 
By Pattiann Rogers
Felix Randal
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
For Billy
By Jack Spicer
For Elizabeth Bishop
By Sandra McPherson
For Louis Pasteur
By Edgar Bowers
For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker
For Malcolm X
By Margaret Walker
Frederick Douglass
By Robert E. Hayden
From a Daybook 
By David St. John
Golden State
By Frank Bidart
Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty
Hell
By Donald Justice
here rests
By Lucille Clifton
Homecoming
By Keith Althaus
How It Is
By Maxine W. Kumin
Hyacinth
By Louise Glück
Immigrants in Our Own Land
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH
By Anne Bradstreet
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII [all 133 poems]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: [Prelude]
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr.
By June Jordan
In Memory of a Child
By Vachel Lindsay
In Memory of Jane Fraser
By Geoffrey Hill
In Memory of the Unknown Poet, Robert Boardman Vaughn
By Donald Justice
In Memory of Walter Savage Landor
By Algernon Charles Swinburne
John Lennon
By Mary Jo Salter
Kaddish
By Allen Ginsberg
Keats
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kind of Blue 
By Lynn Powell
Lament
By Thom Gunn
Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz
Little Elegy
By Elinor Wylie
Lonely Eagles
By Marilyn Nelson
Lycidas
By John Milton
Madmen 
By Billy Collins
Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
Memorial Service 
By George Garrett
Memorial Verses April 1850
By Matthew Arnold
Men Working on Wings
By Stanley Plumly
Misery and Splendor
By Robert Hass
Monody
By Herman Melville
Monuments for a Friendly Girl at a Tenth Grade Party 
By William E. Stafford
Moonflowers
By Karma Larsen
Mountain Dulcimer 
By Robert Morgan
Mourning Poem for the Queen of Sunday
By Robert E. Hayden
Musical Moments 
By Dannie Abse
My Father's Diary 
By Sharon Olds
My mother’s body
By Marge Piercy
My Olson Elegy
By Irving Feldman
My Sad Captains
By Thom Gunn
Nina's Blues
By Cornelius Eady
No Children, No Pets
By Sue Ellen Thompson
Notes for an Elegy
By William Meredith
O Captain! My Captain!
By Walt Whitman
Ode
By Henry Timrod
Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
By Thomas Gray
Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market 
By Pablo Neruda
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd.
By Mark Twain
Odysseus Hears of the Death of Kalypso 
By Donald Revell
of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne
On a Dead Child
By Robert Bridges
On Receipt Of My Mother's Picture
By William Cowper
On Shakespeare. 1630
By John Milton
On the Death of Anne Brontë
By Charlotte Brontë
On the Death of Richard West
By Thomas Gray
On the Loss of the Royal George
By William Cowper
On the Preserved Body of an Inca Child Frozen to Death as a Sacrifice to the Sun
By A. F. Moritz
Our Father
By Irving Feldman
Pauline Is Falling 
By Jean Nordhaus
Phases 
By Wallace Stevens
Poem to the Detroit River
By Terry Wolverton
Posthumous 
By Jean Nordhaus
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy
By Jack Spicer
Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings
By Geoffrey Hill
Requiescat
By Matthew Arnold
Reunion
By Jeff Daniel Marion
Revelations in the Key of K 
By Mary Karr
Roots 
By John Piller
Santa Lucia
By Robert Hass
Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children 
By John Updike
Separation 
By W. S. Merwin
Silent Film 
By Kurt Brown
Small Elegy
By Reginald Gibbons
Spring Music 
By Frederick Feirstein
Stable
By Claudia Emerson Andrews
Stony Limits
By Hugh MacDiarmid
Stump 
By Donald Hall
Suitcase Song 
By Albert Goldbarth
Swifts 
By Gerald Stern
The Answering Machine 
By Linda Pastan
The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
By George Elliott Clarke
The Bones of My Father
By Etheridge Knight
The Book of Phillip Sparrow
By John Skelton
The Burial of the Rev. George Gilfillan
By William McGonagall
The Canticle of Jack Kerouac
By Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Castaway
By William Cowper
The cemetery lies near
By Miguel Hernández
The Charge of the Light Brigade
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Darkling Thrush
By Thomas Hardy
The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara
The Dignity of Ushers 
By Al Maginnes
The Drowned Children
By Louise Glück
The Dying Child
By John Clare
The Foundry Garden
By Stanley Plumly
The Garbo Cloth 
By Lucia Perillo
The Great Blue Heron 
By Carolyn Kizer
The Inheritance
By Stanley Moss
The Japanese Wife
By Charles Bukowski
The Legend
By Garrett Hongo
The Little White Hearse
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Lost Pilot
By James Tate
The Miscarriage 
By Amit Majmudar
The Odd Last Thing She Did 
By Brad Leithauser
The Performance 
By James L. Dickey
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
By Robert Lowell
The Racer’s Widow
By Louise Glück
The Rain
By Zbigniew Herbert
The Role of Elegy
By Mary Jo Bang
The Unknown Dead
By Henry Timrod
The Wind Chimes
By Shirley Buettner
The Wreck of the Thresher
By William Meredith
There Are Black
By Jimmy Santiago Baca
This Day after Yesterday
By Philip Booth
Thou Shalt Not Kill
By Kenneth Rexroth
Three Years She Grew
By William Wordsworth
To a Child in Heaven
By Richard Emil Braun
To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady's Brother and Sister, and a Child of the Name Avis, Aged One Year
By Phillis Wheatley
To an Athlete Dying Young
By A. E. Housman
To Aunt Rose
By Allen Ginsberg
To D-, Dead by Her Own Hand 
By Howard Nemerov
To E. T.
By Robert Frost
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
By John Dryden
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew
By John Dryden
To You 
By Kevin A. González
To. W. P.
By George Santayana
Trollius and trellises
By Charles Bukowski
We Never Know
By Yusef Komunyakaa
Westray: 1991
By Linda Bierds
What Became 
By Wesley McNair
What Our Dead Do
By Zbigniew Herbert
What the Sexton Said
By Vachel Lindsay
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
By Walt Whitman
When the World Ended as We Knew It
By Joy Harjo
Where They Lived
By Marge Saiser
Wyatt Resteth Here
By Henry Howard, earl of Surrey
Yellow Dress 
By Amy Beeder
You Got a Song, Man
By Martín Espada
You Were You Are Elegy 
By Mary Jo Bang
Your Clothes 
By Judith Kroll
[It's been two thousand years now] 
By Marie-Claire Bancquart
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