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

All sounds were dominated by the whirr of the mill in its busy, industrial monody, and within naught else could be heard, save the strident voices pitched on the miller's key and roaring the gossip.

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

The burden of the monody is: Mœliadês sweet courtly nymphs deplore, From Thulê to Hydaspês’ pearly shore.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

The chorus died; and we heard again the deep monody of the sea, like the admonitory voice of fate.

From Old Junk by Ratcliffe, S. K. (Samuel Kerkham)

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

From The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan

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 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

Among these are "monodies" upon Kynge Edwarde the forthe, and the Earle of Northumberlande.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

His business was to devise dirges, monodies, laments, descortz in the Provençal manner; to cry "Heigho!" and "Well-a-day!" not "Ban!" or "Out, haro!"

From Little Novels of Italy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry