Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A eulogy is a funeral oration given in tribute to a person or people who have recently died. Eulogies should not be confused with elegies, which are poems written in tribute to the dead; nor with obituaries, which are published biographies recounting the lives of those who have recently died; nor with obsequies, which refer generally to the rituals surrounding funerals. Some historically notable eulogies include: Eulogy for St Basil of Cæsarea, by St Gregory of Nyssa Fictional eulogy for Julius Cæsar by Mark Antony in Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar Jacques-Benigne Bossuet's eulogy for Henrietta-Maria Stuart Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln's eulogy for Henry Clay Ralph Waldo Emerson's eulogy for Henry David Thoreau Martin Luther King, Jr's eulogy for the martyred children of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Ossie Davis's eulogy for Malcolm X The Earl Spencer's eulogy for Princess Diana This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.