Difference between Lament and Elegy

LAMENT vs ELEGY: NOUN

A feeling or expression of grief; a lamentation.
A song or poem expressing deep grief or mourning.
An expression of grief or sorrow; a sad complaint; a lamentation.
A set form of lamentation or mourning; an elegy; a mourning song or ballad.
The music for an elegy, or a tune intended to express or excite sorrowful emotion; a mournful air.
A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
A cry of sorrow and grief
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
A song expressing grief.
An expression of grief, suffering, or sadness.
An elegy or mournful ballad, or the like.
Grief or sorrow expressed in complaints or cries; lamentation; a wailing; a moaning; a weeping.

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
In music, a sad or funeral composition, vocal or instrumental, whether actually commemorative or not; a dirge.
Any serious poem pervaded by a tone of melancholy, whether grief is actually expressed or not: as, Gray's “Elegy in a Country Churchyard.”
A mournful or plaintive poem; a poem or song expressive of sorrow and lamentation; a dirge; a funeral song.
In classical poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse.
A composition that is melancholy or pensive in tone.
Something resembling such a poem or song.
A poem composed in elegiac couplets.
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

To afflict; distress.
To bewail; mourn for; bemoan; deplore.
Synonyms Lament, Mourn, Grieve; sorrow. Lament expresses always, at least figuratively, an external act. Mourn was originally and is still often the same, but does not now suggest anything audible. Grieve suggests more of a consuming effect upon the person sorrowing. See affliction.
To show great sorrow or regret; repine; chafe; grieve.
To express sorrow; utter words or sounds of grief; mourn audibly; wail.
A mournful poem
A lament for the dead

Complain, Moan, Coronach, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation, Bemoan

Poetry, Symphonic poem, Prose poem, Sonnet, Epitaph, Lamentation, Ballad, Paean, Melancholy, Poem, Requiem, Threnody, Ode, Dirge, Lament

Cry, Weep, Mourn, Moan, Keen, Plaint, Requiem, Regret, Threnody, Deplore, Elegy, Dirge, Wail, Bewail, Lamentation

Poetry, Symphonic poem, Prose poem, Sonnet, Epitaph, Lamentation, Ballad, Paean, Melancholy, Poem, Requiem, Threnody, Ode, Dirge, Lament

Pentecostal Lament: Is there a correspondence between the form of the biblical lament Psalms and early Australian Pentecostal prayer?
This is a valuable example of Christologically oriented lament, but it can strip lament of its function as human complaint toward God.
This is the first book I read on lament and the place of lament for the believer.
One does not move from lament to praise, for even in the lament the element of trust is already present.
In these two psalms we pointed out that lament psalms can move back to lament even after praise.
Kemble VA Lament of Aideen for Oscai Lament of Anastasius.
Southern Baptist, and we need to lament that, lament the pain of victims and grieve with them.
Learning to lament and to hear lament means sitting in the darkness with Job?
Christian lament away from imprecation and toward intercession, although room remains for lament?
This commentator categorised lament psalms as a primary category and individual lament psalms and community lament psalms as sub categories.

Odes typically presents elegy in a negative light.
Elegy for a Young American, Ronald Lo Presti.
Elegy is in the Library of Eton College.
It was also rich in elegy and invective.
Elegy in a country churchyard, and other poems.
He wrote an elegy on the Spanish Expulsion.
We see it in the simple fact that this elegy is complete as an elegy, but it is incomplete as a lament.
Latin and Elegy II Intermediate readings in Latin Lyric and Elegy.
This capacity of elegy is part of the overall function of elegy.
ISBN 9789829092069 Prasad, Mohit (2006) When three met, shared fire: elegy: a certain elegy.