Answer:

elegiac

Answer	Crossword Clue
ELEGIAC	Mournful
ELEGIAC	Like funeral dirges
ELEGIAC	Sorrowful

ELEGIAC	Plaintive
ELEGIAC	Melancholy
ELEGIAC	Melancholy.
ELEGIAC	Like Thomas Gray's finest work.
ELEGIAC	Plaintive.
ELEGIAC	... stanza.
ELEGIAC	Plaintive verse
ELEGIAC	Plaintive; melancholy

ELEGIAC	Plaintive, as a poem
ELEGIAC	Expressing sorrow
ELEGIAC	Like Shelley's "Adonais"
ELEGIAC	Like a Thomas Gray work
ELEGIAC	Like Berg's "Violin Concerto"
ELEGIAC	Like some of Thomas Gray's poetry