love lament
Sorrowful romantic song
A love lament is a mournful song or poem expressing grief over lost, unrequited, or troubled love.
The form appears across cultures and centuries—from ancient elegies to country ballads to emo lyrics.
The emphasis falls on sorrow rather than celebration: She wrote a love lament after the breakup.
Also called a lament of love.
- balladNarrative poem or song
- sad songMournful musical piece
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- broken heartEmotional pain from loss
longing · heartbreak · aria · folk song · yearning · ode · plaint · regret · dirge · weeping willow · romanticism · Victorian poetry · melancholy · sonnet · sorrow · tragedy · despair · dying breath
- Arabic love poetrybeloved, yearning, Layla, classical poetry, lovesickness
- Latin elegyelegies, Cynthia, Delia, Nemesis, Corinna
subject matter/narrative arc
love lamentlove song
Romantic musical composition
declaration of love · love letter · aubade · romantic duet · first dance song
love, lament, loves, loved, loving, lovingly, lover, lovers, lovely