- Elegy, a poem by George Gordon Byron ("Behold the blessings of a lucky lot!")
- Elegy, a short story by Karel Čapek
- Elegy, a poem by Thomas Gray ("The curfew tolls the knell of parting day")
- An Elegy, a poem by Ben Jonson ("Though beauty be the mark of praise")
- Elegy, a poem by Alexander Pushkin ("The extinguished joy of crazy years")
- Elegy, a poem by Alexander Pushkin ("Happy who to himself confess")
- Elegy, a poem by Alexander Pushkin ("Hushed I soon shall be. But if on sorrow's day")
- Elegy, a poem by Alexander Pushkin ("My wishes I have survived")
- Elegy, a poem by Siegfried Sassoon ("Your dextrous wit will haunt us long")
- Elegy, a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne ("Auvergne, Auvergne, O wild and woful land")
- Elegy, a poem by Chidiock Tichborne ("My prime of youth is but a frost of cares")