The songs alternate nicely between bouncy good cheer and romantic mournfulness.
This letter also made my grief vent itself in tears; they were not tears of remorse, however, but of an unavoidable mournfulness.
And mingled with this, thus making it all the more inexplicable, was a feeling of mournfulness, of pity.
She seemed to acquiesce, but the acquiescence was followed by moods of mournfulness and even by tears.
Taken in connection with the words she had just written, that mournfulness threatened her composure.
One of the captains threatened to flog a woman, because the mournfulness of her song was too painful to him.