grief-stricken vs melancholy

grief-stricken

adj

  • Very sad. 

melancholy

adj

  • Affected with great sadness or depression. 

noun

  • Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. 

  • Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. 

How often have the words grief-stricken and melancholy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )