All 13 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Not unattended (the proud Trojan cries) Nor unrevenged, lamented Asius lies: For thee, through hell's black portals stand display'd, This mate shall joy thy melancholy shade.†
Book 13melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- He faints: the soul unwilling wings her way, (The beauteous body left a load of clay) Flits to the lone, uncomfortable coast; A naked, wandering, melancholy ghost!†
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- Thus while he thinks, Antilochus appears, And tells the melancholy tale with tears.†
Book 18
- She said, and left the caverns of the main, All bathed in tears; the melancholy train Attend her way.†
Book 18
- Greece honours not with solemn fasts the dead: Enough, when death demands the brave, to pay The tribute of a melancholy day.†
Book 19
- The Fates suppress'd his labouring breath, And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand of death; To the dark realm the spirit wings its way, (The manly body left a load of clay,) And plaintive glides along the dreary coast, A naked, wandering, melancholy ghost!†
Book 22
- If in the melancholy shades below, The flames of friends and lovers cease to glow, Yet mine shall sacred last; mine, undecay'd, Burn on through death, and animate my shade.†
Book 22
- Far in the close recesses of the dome, Pensive she plied the melancholy loom; A growing work employ'd her secret hours, Confusedly gay with intermingled flowers.†
Book 22
- Afford at least that melancholy joy.†
Book 23
- The chariots first proceed, a shining train; Then clouds of foot that smoke along the plain; Next these the melancholy band appear; Amidst, lay dead Patroclus on the bier; O'er all the corse their scattered locks they throw; Achilles next, oppress'd with mighty woe, Supporting with his hands the hero's head, Bends o'er the extended body of the dead.†
Book 23
- As bearing death in the fallacious bait, From the bent angle sinks the leaden weight; So pass'd the goddess through the closing wave, Where Thetis sorrow'd in her secret cave: There placed amidst her melancholy train (The blue-hair'd sisters of the sacred main) Pensive she sat, revolving fates to come, And wept her godlike son's approaching doom.†
Book 24
- A melancholy choir attend around, With plaintive sighs, and music's solemn sound: Alternately they sing, alternate flow The obedient tears, melodious in their woe.†
Book 24
- All Troy then moves to Priam's court again, A solemn, silent, melancholy train: Assembled there, from pious toil they rest, And sadly shared the last sepulchral feast.†
Book 24
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad