Many of the oldest and most lasting poems in human history have been laments. The Lament for Sumer and Ur dates back … See more

The purely instrumental lament is a common form in piobaireachd music for the Scottish bagpipes. "MacCrimmon's Lament" dates to the Jacobite uprising of 1745. The tune is held to have been written by Donald … See more

There is a short, free musical form appearing in the Baroque and then again in the Romantic periods, called lament. It is typically a set of harmonic variations in homophonic texture, wherein the bass (Lament bass) … See more

• Dirge
• Death poem
• Death wail
• Elegy
• Endecha – Galician lament, subgenre of the planto… See more

• H. Munro Chadwick, Nora Kershaw Chadwick, The Growth of Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932–40), e.g. vol. 2 p. 229.
• Richard Church, The Lamendation of Military Campaigns… See more

• Andrea Fishman, "Thrênoi to Moirológia: Female Voices of Solitude, Resistance, and Solidarity" Oral Tradition, 23/2 (2008): 267–295 Archived 2019-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Roderick Beaton, Folk Poetry of M… See more