pensive
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1. pensive - Adjective
2. pensive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
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Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away;-.
He comes with western winds, with evening's wandering airs, With that clear dusk of heaven that brings the thickest stars; Winds take a pensive tone and stars a tender fire And visions rise and change which kill me with desire.
There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.
OH! hear a pensive captive's prayer, For liberty that sighs; And never let thine heart be shut Against the prisoner's cries.