monody

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The model of the Ode was taken by me in writing the Monody, the general conditions of the two events being somewhat similar, and much of the same language is used in both poems.

From The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses by Manning, J. C.

Miss Seward, his early friend, on reading this account, wrote thus in her "Monody on Major Andr�:" Oh Washington!

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland

Coleridge's "Monody on Chatterton," the first poem in his Poems on Various Subjects, 1796, had been written originally at Christ's Hospital, 1790: it continued to be much altered before the final version.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

It was a profound sympathy with both the parties which prompted the composition of her once famous "Monody on Major Andre."

From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville

In this Monody the Author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy, then in their height.

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John