Possible Clues:

• Despairing of French, awfully behind time
• Forlorn - so elated (anag)
• Like a moonscape
• Barren time - suffer defeat coming back in
• Very unhappy about, don't win back the girlfriend
• Does work with the old and lonely
• Lonely and half in debt - consequently delayed
• Forlorn and unhappy
• Forlorn miss stood up, taken in by boyfriend
• When the editor turns so dead, one is inconsolable