Dirges

Already at the palace of Esun Ekiti, they have cut the trees to signify the passage of the monarch with red flags at some places while some people sat in groups singing dirges on the Elesun’s transition.

Her songs feel like mimeographs of emo dirges, so denatured from their original sadness that they ascend to a kind of smoothed-out hope.

His dirges and satires are bold and blunt; they swap the indirection of imagery, obtuse or otherwise, for the snap of metre and rhyme.

He just likes to bite off more than he can chew sometimes in his little column, and he loves to sing dirges for the Death of Western Civ, like any Responsible Conservative Thinker, harrumph.

And likewise during the day the men recite dirges by themselves and the women by themselves, until about a third of the day has passed.

As he was charged with composing inscriptions and dirges for the governor, he gained experience in writing official documents.

A spin on military brass band funerals, New Orleans traditional funerals feature sad music (mostly dirges and hymns) on the way to the cemetery and happier music (hot jazz) on the way back.

The Kol Bo provides, in the laws for Tisha B'Av : :And they recite dirges there for about a quarter of the night, the men in their synagogue and the women in their synagogue.