elegy

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
elegy /ˈɛlɪdʒi/

▶noun (pl. elegies)

• 1 a mournful poem, typically a lament for the dead.

• 2 (in Greek and Latin verse) a poem written in elegiac couplets.

– origin C16: from Fr. élégie, or via L., from Gk elegeia, from elegos ‘mournful poem’.