In the Elgar, they did more, piercing through to the composer's melancholy soul.

But I couldn't help wondering myself what it was that had turned that handsome young man into a blind, melancholy soul, revealing his feelings and thoughts only through his fingers on the keys of a piano.

There is profound feeling in it, and everything reflects the melancholy soul of the poet.

But when we catch up with Cohen in RED HOOK (Walker, $23.95), the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has shaken his melancholy soul and thrown his fine, philosophical mind off track.

And so does Ana Moura to the album, which shows the melancholy soul more race, in which sings a lament more angry than a contemplative acceptance of the moments of life.

Subdued jazz, melancholy soul, soul-searching shanties, and baroque themes.

And he to me: "This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived without infamy or praise.

Once a week, a psychologist, Yelena Leventhal, offers a quick fix for the melancholy Russian soul: a talk show called "The Art of Being Happy."

You can call it obsession, the consistent and involuntary song of a melancholy soul; it's certainly pretty.

A melancholy soul would say it is a lonely remnant of a career, a life, a useful past.