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

Now it happened that the song was a monody on the death of the Duc d'Enghien, for whose death Napoleon had been greatly blamed by friends as well as by foes.

From Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Reed, Helen Leah

The exquisite monody in which Halleck celebrated his loss, links their names and decorates their friendship with imperishable garlands.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

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