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

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

In my last communication on this subject, I forgot to remark on the strange title given to the monody on Mr. Browne.

From Notes and Queries, Number 73, March 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

For money the cranes of the pumps creaked their monody.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen