lea

noun / lee / leas an open pasture laid fallow for grazing When I was a child I grew up by the River Lea. There was something in the water, now that something’s in me. Oh I can’t go back, but the reeds are growing out of my fingertips. I can’t go back to the river. Adele (River Lea)

melancholy

noun / mel-uhn-kol-ee / melancholies / melancholia affected with deep thoughtful sadness BREATH o’ the grass,Ripple of wandering wind,Murmur of tremulous leaves:A moonbeam moving whiteLike a ghost across the plain:A shadow on the road;And high up, high,From the cypress-boughA long sweet melancholy note.Silence.And the topmost sprayOf the cypress-bough is stillAs a wavelet in a pool;The road lies duskily bare:The plain is a misty gloom:Still are the tremulous leaves;Scarce a last ripple of wind,Scarce a breath i’ the grass.Hush! the tired […]