Laments (Kochanowski)
| Title page of Laments, 1583 printing | |
| Author | Jan Kochanowski | 
|---|---|
| Original title | Treny | 
| Language | Polish | 
| Genre | poetry | 
| Publisher | Drukarnia Łazarzowa | 
| Publication date | 1580 | 
| Publication place | Poland | 
The Laments (also Lamentations or Threnodies; Polish: Treny, originally spelled Threny) is a series of nineteen threnodies (elegies) written in Polish by Jan Kochanowski and published in 1580. They are a high point of Polish Renaissance literature, and one of Kochanowski's signal achievements.