in memoriam

Happy Birthday Mr Cohen! from 10loves10 55 days old

A Thousnad Kisses Deep You came to me this morning And you handled me like meat. You´d have to live alone to know How good that feels, how sweet. My ...

Happy Birthday Mr. Yeats! from 10loves10 520 days old

When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft ...

Happy Birthday Mr. Eco! from 10loves10 680 days old

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and ...

Happy Birthday Mr. Goethe! from 10loves10 810 days old

Another Go! obedient to my call, Turn to profit thy young days, Wiser make betimes thy breast In Fate's balance as it sways, Seldom is the cock ...

Happy Birthday Mr. Riskingham! (First in the series) from 10loves10 838 days old

National History Museum She dumped her date in the gastropod section as he searched out his own kind among the sluggard snails; slipped off quick and ...

Happy Birthday Mr. Kierkegaard! from 10loves10 925 days old

I am at the end of my rope. I am nauseated by life; it is insipid, without salt and meaning. If I were hungrier than Pierrot I would not choose to ...

Happy Birthday Mr. Wescott! from 10loves10 949 days old

I always think of dying with no very clear distinction between the longing for it and the dread of it. Glenway Wescott (1901 – 1987)

Happy Birthday Mr. Auden! from 10loves10 998 days old

As I Walked Out One Evening As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And ...

Happy Birthday Mr. Breton! from 10loves10 1000 days old

Always for the First Time Always for the first time Hardly do I know you by sight You return at some hour of the night to a house at an angle to my ...

Happy Birthday Ms. Bishop! from 10loves10 1011 days old

I Am in Need of Music I am in need of music that would flow Over my fretful, feeling fingertips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, With melody, ...