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
It is a short monody, or Ode of one stanza containing fourteen lines, with uncommonly frequent returns of rhymes more or less combined.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Warton, Thomas
And in a strange, brief, staccato monody chanted the men, and in quick, light rustle of women's voices came the responses.
From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
For money the cranes of the pumps creaked their monody.
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
So much for them: but still I'd like to show The way in which your monodies are framed.
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
The poems of Sappho so mysteriously lost to us seem to have consisted of at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Carman, Bliss
Take away the last stanzas, which should be applied more definitely to the body, or cut away altogether as a lie against eternal verity, and the poem stands as one of the finest of monodies.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir
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 Blancké, Wilton Wallace
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
