Pensive poems (7)

I believe the answer is:

elegies

'pensive poems' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for elegies that I've seen before include "Poems of mourning" , "Laments for the dead" , "Mourning songs" , "Lamenting poems" .)

I've seen this clue in The New Yorker and the Thinks.com.

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