Lexicographical Neighbors of Threnos
Literary usage of Threnos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tupper's Complete Poetical Works by Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851)
"threnos. VANITY, vanity! dead hopes and fears, Dim flitting phantoms of departed
years, Unsatisfying shadows, vague and cold, Of thoughts and things that ..."
2. Greek Melic Poets by Herbert Weir Smyth (1900)
"... contemporary of Cicero, reports (de mus. 5) that in his time the art of
composing this form of lyric had almost entirely disappeared. DIRGES. (threnos ..."
3. Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics edited by John Henry Fowler (1901)
"threnos, the title given by Mr. Palgrave to " 0 World ! O Life I 0 Time !"
is the Greek word for ' dirge.' 8. This line, as printed, contains four feet; ..."
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