All 10 Uses of
melancholy
in
The Ramayana
- No more through air the gay birds flit, But, foodless, melancholy sit Together on the branch and call To thee whose kind heart feels for all.†
Book 2melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- On to their houses, high and vast, Where stores of precious wealth were massed, The melancholy Bráhmans passed, Their hearts with anguish cleft: Aloof from all, they came not near To stranger or to kinsman dear, Showing in faces blank and drear That not one joy was left.†
Book 2
- Him as he lay half-senseless there, Freed by the mighty oaths he sware, Kausalyá, by her woe distressed, With melancholy words addressed: "Anew, my son, this sorrow springs To rend my heart with keener stings: These awful oaths which thou hast sworn My breast with double grief have torn.†
Book 2
- Each bird that through the forest flies Sends out its melancholy cries.†
Book 3 *
- Godávarí's waters as they fled, Saw his fierce eye-balls flashing red, And from each swiftly-gliding wave A melancholy murmur gave.†
Book 3
- He trembled when his woods were pale And bowed beneath the autumn gale, And when his vocal reeds were stirred His melancholy moan was heard.†
Book 5
- Pale, wasted, weeping, on the ground The melancholy queen he found, Whose thoughts in utmost stress of ill Were fixed upon her husband still.†
Book 6
- Their melancholy eyes they raised; In fruitless search a while they gazed.†
Book 6
- They heard his speech: the car was brought; That shady grove the warders sought Where, mourning Ráma night and day, The melancholy lady lay.†
Book 6
- There, flushed with lilies, Pampá shines With banks which greenest foliage lines, Where melancholy steps I bent And mourned thee with a mad lament.†
Book 6
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad