| 单词 | threnody |
| 例句 | Their voices blended into a threnody of nostalgia about pain. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we heard the Muses sing a threnody in nine immortal voices. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In a way, the whole volume is a threnody. She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review 2013-04-13T14:00:02Z She sings like an outsider, in a clear voice made for drowsy madrigals and folk rusticana; her voice lies on top of stomps and threnodies and drone-chants. New Music: Kathleen Edwards, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Cate Le Bon ? CDs 2012-01-16T22:48:58Z The “he was robbed” threnody for Bernie Sanders is considerably less compelling, but it raises valid points. Review: In ‘Fahrenheit 11/9,’ Michael Moore Targets Trump, and Us 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z When you’re expecting extinction, it makes sense to record the threnody in advance. On ‘ForeverAndEverNoMore,’ Brian Eno Sings for the End of the World 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z A lone song suddenly released by Maxwell, as yet unconnected to an album, arrives like a threnody for liberal democracy. The Playlist: Alessia Cara Grows Up, and 12 More New Songs 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z It was an acute and devastating threnody, which King read in a methodical cadence. Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s Searing Antiwar Speech, Fifty Years Later 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z By fusing gay rage and sorrow with familiar musical gestures—Straussian orchestral explosions, Samuel Barber-like threnodies for strings—it ennobled a portion of the population for which many orchestra subscribers might have felt disgust. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Ride the High Country is a threnody for an obsolete kind of heroism and the code of honor underpinning it. 'Bloody' Sam Peckinpah: wasted, insane and indestructibly pure 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z He can still drag tears from hardened hacks with his Song for Richard Collopy, a threnody for his late guitar restorer, whose devastation lies in its affectionate detail. Sun Kil Moon: Among the Leaves – review 2012-07-07T23:05:33Z Using the speech as background in a rock threnody for the end of civilization with drum machine, rampant echo and weeping trumpet: that’s hilarious. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-28T23:00:00Z Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody. Leontyne Price, Legendary Diva, Is a Movie Star at 90 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z On “From Ukraine, For Ukraine,” a darkly brilliant new omnibus album by the cutting-edge Kyiv label Standard Deviation, grief and rage melt into impudently beautiful contemporary threnodies. In Paris Then, in Kyiv Now, Visions of Freedom and Bravery 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Given that Barber's threnody doesn't satisfactorily answer Ives's transcendentalist enigma, the juxtaposition created a sense of nagging unease. Prom 25: BBCSO/Robertson – review 2012-08-02T10:49:49Z What he has composed, in the final reckoning, is a threnody for himself. Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard – review 2013-07-05T11:00:01Z A threnody for strings, rich in aching suspensions, appears twice, first to lament the deaths of millions and later to mark a more personal loss. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z Eliot and describes this theme as "the larger threnody lamenting the death of criticism." Movie critics: Shut up already! 2010-04-15T19:55:00Z Mr. Greenwood’s own score for the movie “There Will Be Blood,” for example, features his “Popcorn Superhet Receiver,” a work directly inspired by the Hiroshima threnody. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z The threnody, in particular, is a much-studied example of startling emotional effects created from abstract concepts. Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z In due course Mr. Mirabal’s drum slows down, and he adds slow flute threnodies. Dance Review: Into the Pool, Slowly but With Feeling 2011-07-31T22:14:39Z After a savage climax, a slow, occasionally discursive string threnody takes over, during which the brass intrusions gradually lose some ferocity and the music moves towards a tentative nobility. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2012-06-11T17:10:04Z Of course, “the unspeakable horror of the literary life” — to borrow Mr. Earbrass’s phrase from Edward Gorey’s “The Unstrung Harp” — is a familiar threnody in the writing biz. Review | In these gloomy, divisive times, does anyone care about books? I do. 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z On one level it is a dryly detailed and topographically exact portrait of a small town in the American midwest, but on another it is a devastating threnody for lost love. Bite-sized: 50 great short stories, chosen by Hilary Mantel, George Saunders and more 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z The ‘he was robbed’ threnody for Bernie Sanders is considerably less compelling, but it raises valid points.” Indie Focus: Trying times in 'The Sisters Brothers,' 'Fahrenheit 11/9' and 'Colette' - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z There is no doubt that the threnody of the era of “Big Daddy Xi,” as the official media call the C.O.E., is boredom. Q. and A.: Geremie R. Barmé on Understanding Xi Jinping 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z It will proclaim the freedom of the white race the world over, it will lift the bowed head of labor, it will hush the threnody of toil. Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 2012-02-29T03:00:21.727Z The name rang in her ears, stretched out into a threnody. A Romance of Wastdale 2012-02-01T03:00:11.227Z He wrote kindly to William Watson and Rudyard Kipling, whose patriotic verse pleased him; and twelve months later Watson paid a grateful tribute to his memory in one of the best among many threnodies. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z It was all like one mighty threnody put to mighty yet very tender music. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Soon after the wedding-verses, Vondel wrote a threnody on the assassination of Henry IV. of France, which was but little better than his former effort. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Sometimes the strings are smitten by harsh hands Of anger, doubt, and frowning jealousies; And sometimes are drawn forth sad threnodies For dear Love dead. His Lady of the Sonnets 2011-09-10T02:00:23.740Z Wild grasses are their burial sheet, And sobbing waves their threnody.” The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z As there was no copy, and but one pair of cases, and the threnody was likely to require all the letters that Keimer had, no helper could be of any assistance to him. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z And his heart once more, as in the matchless threnody for Lincoln, When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, uttered its song of summons and of welcome. A Day with Walt Whitman 2011-06-05T02:00:12.967Z The dirge, the threnody, the elegy, these constitute the bulk of much poetry, ancient and modern. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z No ode or threnody could equal in vibrating passion Captain Scott’s last testament. The Future of English Poetry Hearken! now the hermit bee Drones a quiet threnody; Greening on the stagnant pool The criss-cross light is beautiful; In the venomed yew tree wings Preen and flit. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems He remembered threnodies that saw the beloved dead absorbed into the course of nature: the dawn, the sunset, the season's round, the flowers that spring ever renewed to deck the laureate hearse. Old Crow They sang instead the tumult of the sky, the vast loneliness of distant spaces, something of the deep-toned threnody of the ancient universe, mourning for worlds now dark. Old Plymouth Trails His well-known song of sorrow, O Captain, My Captain, is a threnody poignant with genuine feeling. Walt Whitman Yesterday and Today "Well—I can weave the old threnodies anew." Collected Poems Volume Two The Finale is a threnody, one of overpowering grief, the motto of which might be "vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Music: An Art and a Language From below a new sound had been added to the threnody of the hills; a new note, grumbling and roaring, insistent and strong. The Plunderer One evening, when the last glimmer of hope passed away, I sat down and composed a threnody in his memory. The Book of Khalid His purely scientific attitude must have already abandoned him when he knew gladness that Self was not the dominant note in this dumb threnody of fear. The Dop Doctor He produced hymns and songs, penitential prayers, psalms, and threnodies, filled with hope and longing for a blessed future. Jewish Literature and Other Essays When the lamp is shattered Shelley's threnody The light in the dust lies dead— When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) But the ode, in a more or less irregular form, whether pæan or threnody, has been the instrument of several of our leading lyrists. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature Hoarsely reverberates his threnody; he piles up higher and higher his tremendous tomb of sound, beneath which he shall compose himself in tideless calms of sleep. The Masque of the Elements And is it not a touch of Fate’s irony that I should be sending this threnody of death to one who might expect to receive from me only messages and pleadings of love? The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance The second thought is that this mass, although it has had Papal approval, is not so much a mass as it is a dramatic threnody in memory of a loved friend. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Her loss was mourned most of all in France, where her death has been commemorated by Alfred de Musset's beautiful threnody ending with the lines: Die, then. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Whenever one happened, the local bard was ready with his threnody and the little black-bordered, thick leaflets were sold at one penny apiece for the benefit of the survivors. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile It makes life a threnody instead of a hosanna. Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn Is there any threnody over a death half so unutterably sad as that one jest over a life? Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Lycidas—a poem in irregular rhymed verse—is a threnody on the death of Milton’s young friend, Edward King, who was drowned in sailing from Chester to Dublin. A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 Will he begin now as a poet to write a threnody over his dead daughter, or like a monk yield himself to thoughts about death? The Argonauts Comnenus.—Not much the doubt Comnenus would stand well with times to come, Were there the hand to write his threnody, Yet is he in sad truth a faulty man. My New Curate It was the weird threnody of the brilliant, but ill-starred Poe, who, like a meteor, blazed but for a moment, dazzling a hemisphere, and then went out forever in the darkness of death. Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales I wish I had space to print both these threnodies in full, but they are somewhat long, and I must beg my reader to find them in the printed works of Du Bellay. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance The last, which is about Christmas, is the worst; though the first, containing a threnody on Nelson, Pitt, and Fox, exhibits a more remarkable failure. Early Reviews of English Poets In a long irregular threnody or funeral ode, the great technical difficulty is to support lyrical emotion throughout. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Whilst Nell was uttering this lonely threnody, she was dragging out of the recesses of her bosom what appeared to be a red rag. My New Curate Life in these catacombs was one long threnody of anguish. Leaves from a Field Note-Book He is fantastic and conceited in most of the threnodies; but, as is natural, that on his old friend, Sir Henry Rainsford, is least artificial and fullest of true feeling. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton "I saw the serpent of my Lady's heart, Lovely and leprous; and a violet sigh Shook the wan, yellowing leaves of threnody, Bruised in the holy chalice of my Art." The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts No ode or threnody could equal in vibrating passion Captain Scott's last testament. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Sadder elegiacs, more pathetic threnodies might have been written on the tears that were stifled at their source, either from pride or from physical inability to let them flow. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' There is, however, one of our natural rights, now cruelly beset by its enemies, that is too precious to surrender to the threnodies of the future historians. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 He abandons Spenser's quasi-rustic dialect, and, while keeping to most of the pastoral conventions, such as the singing-match and threnody, he contrives to introduce something of a more natural and homely strain. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton The air he now lulled youth asleep with was a very cheerless threnody, but he brightened once more at praise of his delightful orchard. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance At last, as if too much to bear, Orpheus interrupts their threnody with the words, "The Sounds of your Lament increase my bitter Anguish." The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers For example, if it was originally written as an invective against an opponent, it may afterwards, with the utmost ease, be made to serve as a threnody. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 As the final word of consolation, sanctification, and benediction, closing the awful agony of the greatest of all wars, preserve, Antony, this magnificent threnody in your memory imperishable. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson The Elegies comprise a great variety of styles and themes; some are really threnodies, some verse-letters, some laments over the evil times, and one a summary of Drayton's literary opinions. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton Did he believe, back in slavery time in "signs" and in "sayings"—that the itching foot meant the journey to new lands—that the hound's midnight threnody meant murder? Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 That, I suppose, is how the swan was suggested to the mind when just now, KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN rose from behind Ministers, and began to chant his threnody. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 Say that Bion the herdsman is dead," says the threnody, appealing to the Sicilian muses, "and that song has died with Bion, and the Dorian minstrelsy hath perished.... Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The verse ends in a prolonged threnody, then turns to a firm, serenely grave burst of the song in major, Meno Adagio, with just a hint of martial grandeur. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies And forever the sea sang a low muttering bass to the faint threnody of the wind in the palms. Spanish Doubloons I stood one summer, friend, beside The foam waves of a distant sea That muttered all the summer through A low sweet threnody. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland The subject of the threnody is a nymph of the name of Dido, whose identity can only be vaguely conjectured. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Bion's threnody has undoubtedly become a criterion and given the form to some of the more famous "songs of tears". Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Poliziano poured forth his sorrow in a Latin threnody of touching and simple beauty. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti But we must have due regard for them, for they only miss greatness by a little, and remind us of the faint threnodies that stir in the throats of bird musicians upon the dawn. A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China And still Lilly, on the click of the door after him, could not clear her brain of the running threnody of nonsense: People's Playhouse. Star-Dust He died in Glasgow in December of the same year, and his memory is pathetically embalmed in Carlyle's threnody. Thomas Carlyle And now the broken thought Of nations marketing in death I know, The very winds to threnodies are wrought That on your downlands blow. Georgian Poetry 1913-15 Ultimately, life is for him a pageant with intervals for sentimental threnodies and rhetorical declamation. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Thane rightly surmised that no second invocation would be offered when they should come to the true Pilgrim Station; the old gentleman would keep his threnodies to himself after this. A Touch of Sun and Other Stories "In Memoriam" is his most characteristic work, distinctly a poem of this century, the great threnody of our language. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities In 1916 Mr. Stephens published a threnody, Green Branches, which illustrates still another side of his literary powers. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century One of his best-known sonnets is a threnody for poetry which, he feels, is passing away from earth as materialistic views become generally accepted. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years Stern advanced the spark and now the screw sang a louder, higher threnody. Darkness and Dawn Then from the copse beyond the orchard there sounds the mournful threnody of the owl. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough Adonais is a wonderful threnody, or a song of grief, over the death of the poet Keats. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World We are not called upon to sing threnodies over it, still less to attempt to galvanize a semblance of life into it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 I will see you and speak with you of this—you shall write for her a dirge!—a threnody of passion and regret that shall make the whole world weep! Temporal Power They are the record of a life change, a veritable threnody over a spiritual death. English Men of Letters: Coleridge Who lies within that tomb I do not know, The yellow bird intones his threnody In notes as colourless as driven snow, Clashing with the green hush and out of key. The Five Books of Youth Here the threnody is blent of three chords, the blossoming lilac, the evening star, and the hermit thrush, the latter playing the most prominent part throughout the composition. Birds and Poets : with Other Papers How it suggests all manner of poetic fancies and graceful threnodies! Ziska This cry of the rough man is unexpected, and grandiose as the voice of ancient tragedians chanting the threnody of a hero. The New Book of Martyrs Words from Swinburne's threnody on Baudelaire came to her mind. The Judgment House The song of a blue bird, with its softly warbled notes fell upon our ear, and the dreamy threnody of a mourning dove made a soft accompaniment. See America First He wrote "Drum Taps" and other magnificent poems about the War, culminating in his threnody on Lincoln's death, "When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed." The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters One or two editors, who had dreams of a finished financial business, arising out of Unfinished Business, were there also, like ancient bards, to record with paean or threnody the completion of Unfinished Business. The Story of a Mine Hoarse rhythmic threnodies comes also from the throats of balladsingers; are sold on gray-white paper at a sou each. The French Revolution The words of the great English threnodies over the premature death of men of genius come involuntarily to one who realizes what the death of Lanier meant. A Biography of Sidney Lanier Where are the brave, the strong, the fleet?Where is our English chivalry?Wild grasses are their burial-sheet,And sobbing waves their threnody. Ballad of Reading Gaol |
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