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

The little book of immortal dirges had a fresh leaf added to it in "The Death of the Flowers," which was at once a pastoral of autumn and a monody over a beloved sister.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

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 Bell, George

Of the admired monody to the memory of Lady Lyttleton, we are told only that it is long.

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous