1) Commemorate 2) Commemorate in verse 3) Compose an elegy 4) Deliver a poem of lament 5) Elegise 6) Lament 7) Mourn poetically 8) Poetise 9) Poetize 10) Speak for the dead 11) To compose an elegy 12) To compose an elegy for 13) Verse 14) Versify 15) Write a funeral poem 16) Write a lament about 17) Write certain poems 1) Elegise 
• (v. t.) To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
El'e·gize transitive verb To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail. Carlyle. 
[v] - compose an elegy
elegise verb compose an elegy