pensive

Adjective

• showing pensive sadness
  • the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  wistful , brooding , broody , contemplative , meditative , musing , pondering , reflective , ruminative