<adj.all> Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man
showing pensive sadness
<adj.all> the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
Pensive \Pen"sive\, a. [F. pensif, fr. penser to think, fr. L. pensare to weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See {Pension}, {Poise}.] 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
The pensive secrecy of desert cell. --Milton.
Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. --Pope.
2. Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers. --Prior.
Norman is not good at keeping the momentum going at slow speeds and pensive songs tended to drift without purpose.
Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano was sweetly pensive; Schumann's three "Fantasy Pieces" (Opus 73) for clarinet and piano (published as suitable for violin or cello as well) had a truly remarkable intensity.
Jonathan, a pensive outsider, feels stifled by his close relationship with his mother.