Poetry

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 […]

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)  

adjective / streynj / stranger / strangely / stranger / strangest unfamiliar as a result of being out of one’s natural environment or not yet part of one’s experience Isn’t it strange How people can change From strangers to friends Friends into lovers And strangers again? Celeste (Strange)