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Not so thy Ovid in his exile wrote; Grief chilled his breast, and checked his rising thought; Pensive and sad, his drooping muse betrays The Roman genius in its last decays.
The sorrow has passed into quiet pensive regret that is nigh akin to gladness.
Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes, Nibble their toast and cool their tea with sighs; Or else forget the purpose of the night, Forget their tea, forget their appetite.
She imagined a similarity between the destiny of this pensive poetess and her own.
Here pensive I behold the fading light, And o'er the distant billow lose my sight.
The extravagant offer, the soft, troubled, pensive stare, caused Jack to straighten up and gaze directly at her.
As the light in his eyes quickened from a pensivestare at the ground a few paces from his feet, he perceived a shred of red peeping between the blades of short grass.
He half turned from her--they were standing in the shadow of the fretted cloisters--and hispensive eyes roamed over the wide quadrangle that was at once the convent garden and burial ground.
But finding sleep denied him, he rose, pensive and gloomy, and wandered aimlessly down, and out into the courtyard.
I saw her again as I had seen her in the cab with her sweet, pensive face and downcast eyes; I felt again the touch of her soft cheek and the parting kiss by the gate, so frank and simple, so intimate and final.
The sweet, pensive face of the old Greek settler looked out at me wistfully as though he would offer comfort; as though he would tell me that he, too, had known sorrow when he lived his life in the sunny Fayyum.
The figure is elegant, and the face pensive and sweet.
She looked pensive this evening, which was attributed by the good people around me to the recent departure of the prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, who has been here for some time paying his court.
Well might Horace Walpole say that the gallery at Althorpe was "endeared to the pensive spectator.
Yet I cannot say I felt thus pensive and serious the first time I looked round the gallery at Althorpe.
His mood of marching straight up to the guns thus checked, he was left pensive and distraught.
As soon as he saw the carriage appear between the poplars he became as pensive as a boy caught in the act of stealing cherries.
I know these chaste dawns, these gay noon hours, these pensive evenings and starry nights!
One day when Juliette was pensiveand tenderer than usual, I ventured to lay my project before her.
I sat down on the parapet and, pensiveand fascinated, followed the silhouette of the young lady.
It is a remarkable and well-authenticated fact, that during the breeding-period, and even late in September when preparing to migrate, the same sweet but pensive strains are heard.
Mary Scranton's life and death, though they possessed the elements of a tragedy, were divested of their tragic interest by this calm and pensive New-England atmosphere.
No pensive hermit of the woods, like his cousins, the thrushes, is this joyous vigorous "bird of the morning.
Your pensive air, and smother'd sighs, All tell me you lament the fate, Of him, whom yet you cannot hate.
My pensive bosom strove to keep A dying mother's last request; I let the thoughts of vengeance sleep, And studied to make Emma blest.
Though every string the loss bewail, And tones of mellow sweetness fail, Which us'd to charm the pensive ear, When list'ning Friendship bent to hear.
His pensive eye now sought the earth; No more within the dance to move, Or list to sages, did he love; But from surrounding friends would fly, To pour in solitude the sigh.
The persons pictur'd in thy mind; But who is that, with pensive mien, And forehead on her hand reclin'd?
Neath the shade of a palm branch a fourth one stood by, With locks like in hue to the tresses of Night, With a pale, pensive brow, and a dark dreamy eye, Where the soul of sweet softness lay gleaming in light!
So oppressed was I at these troubles, that I gave over my enterprize, sailing to a little creek on the shore, where stepping out, I set me down on a rising hill, very pensive and thoughtful.
These words made Friday look so very pensive that I thought he would have fallen at my feet.
Among the Latin poets no specimen, perhaps, exists so perfect of this voluptuous yet pensive morality or immorality, as the Vivamus, mea Lesbia, of Catullus.
