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Other than epitaphs, examples of ancient elegy as a poem of mourning include Catullus ' Carmen 101, on his dead brother, and elegies by Propertius on his dead mistress Cynthia and a matriarch of the prominent Cornelian family.

Ovid wrote elegies bemoaning his exile, which he likened to a death.

A notable example that established the genre in English literature is Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ( 1750 ).