Originally published in 1898. By the Aurelian Wall, and Other Elegies is a collection of Bliss Carman's formal elegies. The elegy, By the Aurelian Wall, is Carman's elegy (a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead) to John Keats. The collection also includes the elegies on Keats and Shelley, as well as on William Blake and Robert Louis Stevenson.