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
One of these is the rhyming of words like utterly, monody, lethargy, etc.; these endings seem weak when they are bunched.
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
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
His music belongs entirely to the ancient period of monody.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)
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From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King
So much for them: but still I'd like to show The way in which your monodies are framed.
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
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 Kilmer, Joyce
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
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
