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Not only was this "lame and impotent conclusion" imitated by Spenser in his lovely elegy,
Chaucer Adolphus William Ward 1880
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What came to Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, was a mournful elegy,
NPR Topics: News 2010
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What came to Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, was a mournful elegy,
NPR Topics: News 2010
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What came to Hass, the former poet laureate of the United States, was a mournful elegy,
NPR Topics: News 2010
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He also served as our composer-in-residence for two seasons and we recorded his evocative elegy,
NewMusicBox 2009
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