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
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
He wrote a pathetic and not wholly forgotten monody on the death of his first wife, to which he could have added a new and poignant emphasis after his second marriage.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
What sport the monody on Napoleon would be—what wooden verse, what stucco ornament!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
Asides and soliloquies.Lengthy monodies, monologues and episodical specialties.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace
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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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
The slave class is the topic of many of these monodies: either the virtues of the loyal slave are extolled140, or the knavery of the cunning slave141.
From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace
