His elegies addressed to Messala contain a beautiful amplification of sentiments founded in friendship and esteem, in which it is difficult to say, whether the virtues of the patron or the genius of the poet be more conspicuous.
The elegiesare all alphabetic, and like most alphabetic poems (cf.
The general theme of the elegies is the sorrow and desolation created by the destruction of Jerusalem[2] in 586 B.
With sorrowful eyes Jeremiah sees the coming disaster, and he sings of it in elegiesunspeakably touching (viii.
They are not all of equal value; the elegies excel the odes; and some of the exercises on Gunpowder Treason might have been spared.
Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year, by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment.
His elegies and songs are dead, and whatever vitality remains in his verse will be found in the Pastoral Ballad and the Schoolmistress.
I do not think that there is a single thought in his elegies of any eminence that is not literally translated.
He wrote wedding odes, elegieson great men, eulogies of the living.
The elegies written in lament for the burning of the Law and the martyrdoms endured in various parts of Italy were the only meritorious devotional poems composed in Hebrew in that country.
These are variously bound up in different copies, being sometimes before, sometimes at the end of the Elegies upon the Author, sometimes before and among them.
Donne's epigrams were much admired, and some of his elegies were classed with them as satirical 'evaporations of wit'.
Of the Elegies two groups seem to have been pretty widely circulated before the larger collections were made or publication took place.
The poems themselves, with some prose letters and the Elegies upon the Author, fill pages 1-406.
Six Satires are followed by twenty-seven Elegies (one is torn out) under which head love and funeral elegies are included, and these by a long series of songs with the Divine Poems interspersed.
In the 1633 arrangement there were occasional errors in the placing of individual poems, especially Elegies, owing to the use of that name both for love poems and for funeral elegies or epicedes.
When the same poets break out into honest Paganism, in the frank verses written by Bembo for Priapus, in Beccadelli's epigrams, or in the elegies of Acon and Iolas, we feel that they are more artistically justified.
In addition to these unpublished Latin poems, Filelfo collected three books of Greek elegies and epigrams, amounting to 2,400 verses.
Mr. Gosse neglects the elegies of William Shenstone, which were also in the quatrain, and some of which had apparently been published before the Churchyard Elegy.
The world has an admirable example of its beauty in a collection of elegies not long since published.
Shenstone, in his Prefatory Essay on Elegy, defended the metrical form and referred to the elegies of Hammond.
By far the most famous of her elegies are those in which she bewailed her valiant brothers, MuaEuro~Aiwiya and a¹cakhr, both of whom were struck down by sword or spear.
The elegies in which he recorded his grief, are not the least poetical of his compositions both in Latin and Italian.
The case is very different with Pontano's Latin elegies and lyrics.
Girolamo, his elegies in the metre of the Divine Comedy, iv.
The Latin elegies and epigrams are full of her praises; and one of the Eclogues, Pharmaceutria, is inscribed with her name.
Footnote 341: We might parallel Guidiccioni's lamentations with several passages from the Latin elegies of the period, and with some of the obscurer compositions of Italian poetasters.
See the series of elegies on Stella, Eridanorum, lib.
And then they turn to indite sonnets on Faustina's hair or elegies upon her modesty[284]; and when they are tired with these recreations, meet together to invent ingenious obscenities.
Elegies on the Author's Death appeared in 1633, and was reissued two years later.
Donne wrote two elegies in her honour, one of which, at least, seems to be inspired by genuine emotion.
Basse, himself, had published three pastoral elegies in 1602, and he was still writing pastorals half a century later.
Not a few of the elegies are imitated from Ovid, and some of them might perhaps have been left unwritten with advantage.
Many of these poems are complaintes or elaborate elegies (often composed on commission) for distinguished persons, such as Geoffroy de Sargines and Guillaume de Saint Amour.
Twenty-six elegies likewise adopt the couplet, and show, as do the epistles, remarkable power over that form.
Some of the Elegies have been already used in illustration of other poems.
The same quality is found in his Latin and Greek verse--in the plaintive elegies for La Bella Simonetta and Albiera degli Albizzi, in the Violae and in that ode In puellam suam[511] which is the Latin sister of La brunettina.
Both Benivieni and Michelangelo Buonarroti composed elegies in this meter; and numerous didactic eclogues of the pastoral poets might be cited in which it served for analogue to Latin elegiacs.
Some of the most interesting lyrics of the school are elegies upon his death.
Those, for example, by Lorenzo de' Medici bear the same relation to his Canti Carnascialeschi as Pontano's odes to the Saints bear to his elegiesand Baian lyrics.
His Latin elegieson Simonetta and on Albiera degli Albizzi, and those Greek epigrams which Scaliger preferred to the Latin verses of his maturity, had been already written.
In some of hiselegies and epistles he counterfeits the Ovidian style extremely well, so that they might pass for those of his model.
The elegies of Barlæus, as we generally find, are superior to the hexameters; he has here the same smoothness of versification, and a graceful gaiety which gives us pleasure.
Those of Jonston himself, and some elegies by Scot of Scotstarvet, are among the best.
Sacadas wrote poetry, composed music, and played lyric songs and elegies to the flute:(1555) a particular kind of flute was called the Argive.
The elegies were sung in campaigns, at meals, and after the paean, not in chorus, but singly, and for a prize.
It was not very likely that a youth of perhaps eighteen, who was writing the elegies and epistles in Latin which drew upon him so much notice, would submit quietly to so degrading a treatment.
Besides short elegies like those of Catullus, he wrote an epic called Io, as well as lampoons against Pompey and other leading men.
Who the author was it is impossible to say, but though he had little genius he was a man of feeling and taste, and the six elegies are a pleasing relic of this active and yet melancholy time.
His poetry was entirely taken from Alexandria; he translated Euphorion and wrote four books of love-elegies to Cytheris.
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