During the cattle drives, Texas cowboy music came into national significance. Its practical purpose is well known--it was used pri...marily to keep the herds quiet at night, for often a ballad sung loudly and continuously enough might prevent a stampede. However, the cowboy also sang because he liked to sing.... In this music of the range and trail is "the grayness of the prairies, the mournful minor note of a Texas norther, and a rhythm that fits the gait of the cowboy's pony."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, an...d superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My silks and fine array, My smiles and languish'd air,... By Love are driv'n away; And mournful lean Despair Brings me yew to deck my grave: Such end true lovers have.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful ...as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at: school-languages and other merely grammatical stuff, if there were nothing better! The largest soul that was in all England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man de...ems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Billie Holiday's burned voice had as many shadows as lights,... a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano, the gardenia her signature under that ruined face. ... If you can't be free, be a mystery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out of ...the window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For I must tell you, I was given to understand in my childhood, that the British island from which my forefathers came, was no lot...us-garden, no paradise of serene sky and roses and music and merriment all the year round, no, but a cold foggy mournful country, where nothing grew well in the open air, but robust men and virtuous women, and these of a wonderful fibre and endurance; that their best parts were slowly revealed; their virtues did not come out until they quarrelled: they did not strike twelve the first time; good lovers, good haters, and you could know little about them till you had seen them long, and little good of them till you had seen them in action; that in prosperity they were moody and dumpish, but in adversity they were grand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a feeling of loyalty to her which seems to compel me to indulge in mournful thoughts. Do not mistake. Relief is coming. I... am more like myself--more hopeful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »