monody

“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

At twelve years, he wrote a monody on "The Burial of Brian Boru," which is given below.

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Julia Keese Colles

The vague sighing voice of the woods rose and fell with a melancholy monody.

From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree

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

From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher

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 Henry Coppee

Its monodies are twelve poems, whose music strives to change yet ever is the same.

From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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

I had in my collection no fewer than forty-seven monodies and dirges on Stonewall Jackson; some dozens on Ashby and a score on Stuart.

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon

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 Wilton Wallace Blancké