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 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
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 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
In my last communication on this subject, I forgot to remark on the strange title given to the monody on Mr. Browne.
From Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Asides and soliloquies.Lengthy monodies, monologues and episodical specialties.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Wilton Wallace Blancké
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
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 Bliss Carman
So much for them: but still I'd like to show The way in which your monodies are framed.
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
He affected some decent poetry just before he was hanged, and therefore the Saints took up his memory and wrote monodies on him.
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
