My Favorite Word » topost http://www.myfavoriteword.com Your Word, in Your Words Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:49:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Threnody http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2009/09/12/threnody/ http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2009/09/12/threnody/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:04:37 +0000 form http://www.myfavoriteword.com/?p=1024 In some dictionaries the definition reads…

a song of lamentation for the dead

It is sad, but with a definition that rises to the level of poetry

Veida
Pennsylvania

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jessie
berkeley, ca

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