monody

Example Sentences

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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

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

The poem is a monody on the tragedy at the theater.”

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison

Overhead the detached clouds swept swift as eagles, 167 casting shadows cold as winter, and in the dwarfed century-old trees the wind breathed a sad monody.

From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Garland, Hamlin