monody
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“The Wishing Tree,” a beautiful, seemingly slight nine-line monody, commemorates his laconic, generous mother—“I thought of her as the wishing tree that died / And saw it lifted, root and branch, to heaven.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2019
Suddenly, a hidden 35-piece baroque orchestra begins the accompaniment to the introductory monody, and a spotlight picks out a bearded Father Time at the door of a pyramid above the abyss.
From Time Magazine Archive
That sombre monody outside was like the tremor and boom of the drums funebre.
From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)
Milton's "Lycidas" is a monody on the death of the poet's friend, Edward King.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
They were rains that lured him forth to dabble in their gentle fountains, to listen at the window of Ninety-nine to their rippling monody, and at night to lie awake infatuated.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
So much for them: but still I'd like to show The way in which your monodies are framed.
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
I had in my collection no fewer than forty-seven monodies and dirges on Stonewall Jackson; some dozens on Ashby and a score on Stuart.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.
Its monodies are twelve poems, whose music strives to change yet ever is the same.
From The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan
She wrote, it is believed, at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
Asides and soliloquies.Lengthy monodies, monologues and episodical specialties.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace
