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

That sombre monody outside was like the tremor and boom of the drums funebre.

From The Sea and the Jungle by Tomlinson, H. M. (Henry Major)

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

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

Sea, sea, Laugh on in glee; How dear to the sailor thy sweet monody!

From Rowena & Harold A Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst by Pryer, William Stephen

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From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

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 DeLeon, T. C.

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

Asides and soliloquies.Lengthy monodies, monologues and episodical specialties.

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace

So much for them: but still I'd like to show The way in which your monodies are framed.

From The Frogs by Aristophanes