It took around two years for Burns to complete the poem. In a letter to Robert Cleghorn ... but something came in my way so that the design of an Elegy to his memory gave up.

JAMI HANREDDY  our girl is gone she was the soul of our household the most kind and compassionate and clever of companions an ...

Elegy for Opportunity extends a lifeline from Earth that will leave you feeling comforted, challenged and a little less alone in the universe. Natalie Lim from Vancouver wins the 2018 CBC Poetry ...

Despite being perhaps the most famous animal elegy ever written ... made it his mission to track down the pen behind the poem ...

Poor Maillie's Elegy' was written as an accompaniment to The Death and Dying Words of Poor Maillie and first appeared in the Kilmarnock Edition of Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786).

Caption: Natalie Lim is the winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and author of the poetry collection Elegy for Opportunity. (Submitted by Natalie Lim) ...