pensive

(s) deeply or seriously thoughtful
- 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
brooding, contemplative, meditative, musing, pondering, reflective, ruminative, broody,
(s) showing pensive sadness
- the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
wistful,

brooding contemplative meditative musing pondering reflective ruminative broody wistful

pension

pensively pensiveness