Definition of elegy. plural. elegies. 1 : a poem in elegiac couplets. 2a : a song or poem expressing sorrow or lamentation especially for one who is deadb : something (as a speech) resembling such a song or poem. 3a : a pensive or reflective poem that is usually nostalgic or melancholyb : a short pensive musical composition.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 â March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include  Paul Revere's Ride , The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri 's The Divine Comedy, and was one of the five Fireside Poets.
Who's Who - Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Cabot Lodge (1850-1924), a conservative Republican politician, proved a long-term adversary of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson and, ultimately, his nemesis. Born to a prominent Boston family on 12 May 1850, Lodge was educated at Harvard from which he emerged with a Ph.D. in political science in 1876, being admitted to the bar the same year.