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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 […]
mirth
noun / murth / mithless / mirthful an emotion that follows humor and accompanied by laughter and amusement We, in the ages lyingIn the buried past of the earth,Built Nineveh with our sighing,And Babel itself with our mirth;And o’erthrew them with prophesyingTo the old of the new world’s worth;For each age is a dream that is dying,Or one that is coming to birth. Arthur O’Shaughnessy (The Music-Makers)
shudders
verb / shuhd-erd / shudder / shuddered / shuddering to tremble convulsively as a result of fear, revulsion, or coldness The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said. Edgar Allan Poe (Marginalia)