Examples from literature

• And before you reach the end you will have encountered en route pretty nearly all the moods of poetry that exist: tragic, humorous, ironic, elegiac, lyric—everything. 
• I turn now to the elegiac poets of modern times. 
• Rather tender and elegiac than vigorous, the deep sadness underlying the most sparkling forms of his work is most notable. 
• She concluded in the following elegiac strain, which did not fail to touch our sympathies. 
• Six lines in elegiac couplets.