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She wrote, it is believed, at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.

From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce

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

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.

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

From The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan

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

From The Dramatic Values in Plautus by Blancké, Wilton Wallace