consider thomas gray's "elegy written in a country churchyard" as an elegy.

The poem has the voice and tone of an elegy. Gray clearly wants people to remember all the dead, not just the rich and famous. The simple peasant farmer lived a life of great significance,

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.