Citations:dirge


 * 1831 — Edgar Allan Poe. Lenore
 * No dirge shall I upraise,/ But waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!
 * Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung! — An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young — A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Not so much in obedience, as in surprise and fear: for on the raising of the hand, he became sensible of confused noises in the air; incoherent sounds of lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self-accusatory. The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night.
 * 1849 — Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven (1849 Revision)
 * “Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore — Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of ‘Never — nevermore’.”