A poem written in this genre begins with the lines “Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more/Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere” and questions “Who would not sing for Lycidas,” the titular character. The line “Thine are these orbs of light and shade” is in the second stanza of “In Memoriam,” a poem in this genre by Tennyson. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem in this genre genre laments “Death feeds on this mute voice, and laughs at our despair” and “his fate and fame shall be/An echo and a light unto eternity!” That poem, Adonais, is a poem of this genre .Thomas Gray created one that was “Written in a Country Churchyard.” For ten points this types of poem often used to lament loss, death, or invoke melancholy.
A poem written in this genre begins with the lines “Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more/Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere” and questions “Who would not sing for Lycidas,” the titular character. The line “Thine are these orbs of light and shade” is in the second stanza of “In Memoriam,” a poem in this genre by Tennyson. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem in this genre genre laments “Death feeds on this mute voice, and laughs at our despair” and “his fate and fame shall be/An echo and a light unto eternity!” That poem, Adonais, is a poem of this genre .Thomas Gray created one that was “Written in a Country Churchyard.” For ten points this types of poem often used to lament loss, death, or invoke melancholy.
A poem written in this genre begins with the lines “Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more/Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere” and questions “Who would not sing for Lycidas,” the titular character.