Word from OED: rhapsody, n.

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1. An epic poem or part of one, e.g. a book of the Iliad or Odyssey, suitable for recitation at one time. 1542 UDALL Erasm. Apoph. 76 The grammarians in olde tyme spent moste of their studie and were moste famyliare in the rhapsodies of Homerus. 1640 B. JONSON Horace A.P. 11 A Rhapsody of Homers [L. Iliacum carmen]. 1713 BENTLEY Freethinking vii. (1743) 26 Poor Homer..wrote a sequel of Songs and Rhapsodies, to be sung by himself for small earnings. 1727-38 CHAMBERS Cycl. s.v., Those [verses] of Homer, which..were at length, by Pisistratus's order, digested into books, called rhapsodies. 1886 F. B. JEVONS in Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. VII. 298 The , which seems to have been a favourite rhapsody.transf. 1813 SCOTT Let. to Byron in Lockhart (1837) III. ii. 101 Those who have done me the honour to take my rhapsodies for their model. 1817 MOORE Lalla Rookh 293 The youth..proposed to recite a short story, or rather rhapsody.  2.  a. The stringing together of poems. Obs.[sup]0[/sup]
1603 HOLLAND Plutarch's Mor. Explan. Words, Rhapsodie, a sowing together or conjoining of those Poems and verses..which before were loose and scattered. 1616 BULLOKAR Eng. Exp., Rapsodie, a ioyning of diuerse verses together.  b. The recitation of epic poetry. rare.
a1822 SHELLEY Ion Prose Wks. 1888 II. 119 A man professing himself a judge of poetry and rhapsody.  3. A miscellaneous collection; a medley or confused mass (of things); a ‘string’ (of words, sentences, tales, etc.). Obs.
1574 Life Abp. Parker To Rdr. Civb, Certaine Rapsodies, and shredes off olde forworne storyes, allmost forgotten. 1580 J. HAY in Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.) 34 The doctreine..is na other thing bot other the inuention of Iohne Calvin, or ane rapsodie of awld condamned heresies. 1602 SHAKES. Ham. III. iv. 48 Such a deed, As..sweete Religion makes A rapsidie of words. 1665 GLANVILL Def. Van. Dogm. 72 A meer rhapsody and confused ramble of they knew not what. 1699 BENTLEY Phal. Pref. p. lxxvii, His whole Book..is nothing else but a Rhapsody of Errors and Calumnies. 1711 ADDISON Spect. No. 46 1 That would look like a Rhapsody of Nonsense to any Body but myself. 1765 H. WALPOLE Otranto ii. 59 Have done with this rhapsody of impertinence. 1837 HALLAM Hist. Lit. I. I. vii. §20. 399 The treatise of Agrippa on occult philosophy is a rhapsody of wild theory and juggling falsehood.  b. A literary work consisting of miscellaneous or disconnected pieces, etc.; a written composition having no fixed form or plan. Obs.
1602 DAVISON (title), A Poetical Rapsody Containing, Diuerse Sonnets,..and other Poesies, both in Rime, and Measured Verse. 1603 HOLLAND Plutarch's Mor. 207 Some old ragged rapsodies and overwoorne discourses. 1685 COTTON tr. Montaigne (1877) I. 56 There is no subject so frivolous that does not merit a place in this rhapsody. 1710 T. SMITH Let. in Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 53, I have lately got A. Wood's Rhapsody [sc. Athen