A sense of sadness or melancholy is increased, along with real dissatisfaction with our daily lives.
Perhaps it was this--perhaps it was the look of the island, with its grey, melancholy woods, and wild stone spires, and the surf that we could both see and hear foaming and thundering on the steep beach--at least, although the sun shone bright and hot, and the shore birds were fishing and crying all around us, and you would have thought anyone would have been glad to get to land after being so long at sea, my heart sank, as the saying is, into my boots; and from the first look onward, I hated th
The formidable path ahead grows darker, darker still, With nothing heard but the call of birds hemmed in by the ancient forest, Male birds smoothly wheeling, following the females; And there come to us the melancholy voices of the cuckoos Out on the empty mountain, under the lonely moon.
Some forbear it, not upon negligence alone, but doubting to bring themselves into melancholy, in respect they shall find it broken.
Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen!
14） ●All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Marv Levy It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.
"And a mass of melancholy fancy thronged my mind as well.
The family had just moved to Rhode Island, and the young woman was feeling a little melancholy on that Sunday in May.
A girl The color of lilacs, The fragrance of lilacs, The worries of lilacs, Feeling melancholy in the rain, Plaintive and hesitating.
In North China, however, it is particularly limpid, serene and melancholy.
It makes me nostalgic and melancholy to think about the old times and my mind is as depressed as the vast expanse of North China is thirsty.
This is the day you have set apart to devote to this object, and perhaps in fulfilling this duty you may find some distraction from the melancholy to which, as I see to my sorrow, you are a prey.
Then the husband, bidding farewell to all his friends, stretched himself upon another bier, upon which were laid seven little loaves of bread and a pitcher of water, and he also was let down-down-down to the depths of the horrible cavern, and then a stone was laid over the opening, and the melancholy company wended its way back to the city.
John Keats said that in the "temple of delight melancholy has her sovran shrine.
Everything was quiet, only the moon appeared above the grave, and frequently anowl flew past and uttered her melancholy cry.
Do you hear that melancholy cry from the meadow there, answered the cowherd, that is the bittern.
The sky was blue, and a fresh breeze played on their faces, but how melancholy everything looked all around.
" The two melancholy ones thought to themselves, "That will still not save us," and stayed where they were, but the third, the merry one, got up and walked on in the forest until he found the rockhouse.
The lion in his great haste had put his master's head on the wrong way round, but the huntsman did not observe it because of his melancholy thoughts about the king's daughter.
