A melancholic look is visible but not a melancholic heart.

Ethiopian proverbs
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Mood Swings

depression anxieties
life-long melancholies
diverse eccentricities

poem by Terence George Craddock
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He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.

quote by George Barr McCutcheon
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I think I am pretty much melancholic.

quote by Juliette Binoche
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Melancholy Mood

A little collie weed to ease I grief
too much agony living in the limits of big city
a little collie weed to meditate
too much insanity in this society
melancholy mood I eat for my food melancholy mood
rise this morning smile with the sun
oh I'm blessed another day has begun
everything in life has its purpose
find its reason it has its season
melancholy mood I eat for my food melancholy mood
tears leave my eyes I just want to fly
deep down I feel pain
but I know I must rise again
from this melancholy mood melancholy mood
melancholy mood I eat for my food melancholy mood

song performed by Ziggy Marley
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Melancholy is a federation of hells, based in Paradise.

aphorism by Octav Bibere
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Away, Melancholy

Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.

Are not the trees green,
The earth as green?
Does not the wind blow,
Fire leap and the rivers flow?
Away melancholy.

The ant is busy
He carrieth his meat,
All things hurry
To be eaten or eat.
Away, melancholy.

Man, too, hurries,
Eats, couples, buries,
He is an animal also
With a hey ho melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.

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poem by Stevie Smith
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Melancholic skies
Skilled at hiding mournful eyes
Cry tears of April.

haiku by Cynthia Buhain-Baello (04 August 2008, Tarlac City, Philippines)
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens in Bleak House
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

quote by Francois Truffaut
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Song

TO a woman's wistful heart
In a startled wave of feeling,
Swift and sudden,
Sweeps love's flood in,
Joy with fear in rapture reeling;
Scathe and sorrow, fret and smart,
In one flush of gladness healing;
Life beclouded,
Sorrow shrouded,
As a sunlit world revealing
To a woman's wistful heart!
To a woman's wistful heart,
Warm with hopes that almost frighten.
Love comes singing,
Gladly bringing
To her loneliness a light in.
Pain and shadowed grief depart,
Every hour life's glories heighten;
Earth's wide wonder
That has shunned her

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poem by Arthur Henry Adams
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Melancholy is no bad thing.

quote by Sting
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Her wistful face haunts my dreams like the rain at night.

aphorism by Rabindranath Tagore from Stray Birds (1916), translated by Rabindranath Tagore
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A wealthy man is a pensive man.

Sicilian proverbs
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Pensive I Sit and Sniff Scents

Pensive I sit and sniff scents,
Of lavender and lilac...
Coming to invade my space,
From the other side of a fence...
Where my neighbors reside.

These days I try to find a way,
To quiet all of my anxieties.
And I didn't think I had that many,
Until I discovered...
I do!

And still I sit in a pensiveness.
Between thoughfulness and sadness.
And dreams that seem out of reach.
Although my 'spirits'
Are lifted by scents I sniff and wish to seige.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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I'm so involved in melancholy.

quote by Isaac Mizrahi
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Civilization Cyclic Changes

pacific decadal oscillation
song craft introspection
earth rich sonic textures

seed powerful varied forces
future echo fury devastation cycles
storm ecstatic melancholies

remarkable golden civilizations
spectrum sonic sung experiences
beautifully crafted melodic songs

erupts volcanic tsunamis waves
tornado thunderstorm supercell storms
mega earthquakes chaos collapses

poem by Terence George Craddock
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Melancholy Child

A baby with a baby just barely seventeen
My mother mourned her innocence
While she bounced on her knee
A daddy on the road added to her tears and trials
Like silver rain they fell upon this melancholy child
The sounds of my childhood still linger in my song
My mother's lullaby that train that ran behind our home
A whippoorwill on a window sill - it should have made me smile
But everything sounds lonesome to a melancholy child
Now a restless blood runs in our family
I thought I could outrun the emptiness inside of me
So I went a little crazy, went a little wild
Trying to outdistance my own melancholy child
I met a kind and gentle man who thinks the world of me
And when he looks my way it is a woman that he sees
But when I can't explain to him the tears that fill my eyes
He takes me in his arms and rocks his melancholy child
You take a black Irish temper and some solemn Cherokee
A Southern sense of humor and you got someone like me
There are thorns on every rose to this I'm reconciled

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song performed by Pam Tillis
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Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

quote by Thomas Willis
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Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.

quote by Richard Le Gallienne
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