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
They were rains that lured him forth to dabble in their gentle fountains, to listen at the window of Ninety-nine to their rippling monody, and at night to lie awake infatuated.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
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
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)
So much for them: but still I'd like to show The way in which your monodies are framed.
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
Its monodies are twelve poems, whose music strives to change yet ever is the same.
From The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan
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
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
