Category:Laments

A lament or lamentation is a work expressing grief, regret, or mourning. Many of the oldest poems in human history have been laments, and a rich tradition of musical settings has followed.

Subcategories include:

• the composer elegy (a/k/a epitaphium)
• the royalty elegy (often a monarch)
• the lover's lament on themes including the lover's death, or abandonment by one's lover
• the religious lament, such as Jeremiah's Lamentations

(See also the Wikipedia article on laments.)

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