monody

“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

Clericus on clerical members of parliament, 11. —— on monody on Sir John Moore, 138.

From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 5, January-June, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc by George Bell

The vague sighing voice of the woods rose and fell with a melancholy monody.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree

The exquisite monody in which Halleck celebrated his loss, links their names and decorates their friendship with imperishable garlands.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

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 Joyce Kilmer

So much for them: but still I'd like to show The way in which your monodies are framed.

From The Frogs by Aristophanes

We can use these elegies, reveries and monodies as a means of discovering the nature of the virtues thus brought out from obscurity, though in coloring too pale and uniform.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various

Its monodies are twelve poems, whose music strives to change yet ever is the same.

From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

The slave class is the topic of many of these monodies: either the virtues of the loyal slave are extolled140, or the knavery of the cunning slave141.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké