All 6 Uses of
melancholy
in
Faust -- translated by Brooks
- The fairest flower of the youth sit listening Before your play, and wait the revelation; Each melancholy heart, with soft eyes glistening, Draws sad, sweet nourishment from your creation; This passion now, now that is stirred, by turns, And each one sees what in his bosom burns.†
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- ] Good gentlemen, and you, fair ladies, With such red cheeks and handsome dress, Think what my melancholy trade is, And see and pity my distress!†
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- In every dress I well may feel the sore Of this low earth-life's melancholy.†
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- The moon's imperfect disk, how melancholy It rises there with red, belated glow, And shines so badly, turn where'er one can turn, At every step he hits a rock or tree!†
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- Love-plaints, sweet and melancholy, Voices of those days so holy?†
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- And even down the deep abysses Its melancholy quiverings throw!†
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Definition:
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(melancholy) a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad