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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

After the death of my mother, the work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard


Compare Poets

Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.

Poet A

Louise Chandler Moulton Louise Chandler Moulton

Poet B

Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay
Compare two related contemporaries

A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.

Kindred spirits
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 74% Poems 87% Blended 80%
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Louise Chandler Moulton

Louise Chandler Moulton

10 April 1835 – 10 August 1908 (~73)
2 live poems · English

In the quiet Connecticut countryside of Pomfret, on April 10, 1835, a child was born who would become one of the most influential literary figures of the late nineteenth century, though her name today is less remembered than the glittering circle of writers and artists she championed. Ellen Louise Chandler, who would later be known to the literary world as Louise Chandler Moulton, emerged from circumstances that seem…

“I was lonely, and I sought companions. What was there to do but to create them?”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Love Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
Listen Timeline Affinities
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

22 February 1892 – 19 October 1950 (~58)
100 live poems · English

Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on 22 February 1892 in Rockland, Maine, and died on 19 October 1950 at her home in Austerlitz, New York. During her lifetime she became one of the most visible and commercially successful poets in the United States: a Pulitzer Prize winner, a celebrated public reader, a playwright, a lyricist, a political writer, and an emblem of the modern, sexually independent “New Woman.” Her fame…

“The poet is not a man who says what he thinks, but a man who says what he feels.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Confessional Poets, Dramatic Poets, Love Poets, Political Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

Louise Chandler Moulton
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1835 1950
They overlapped for 17 years (1892–1908). When Edna St. Vincent Millay was born, Louise Chandler Moulton was about 57. Edna St. Vincent Millay was about 16 when Louise Chandler Moulton died.
Louise Chandler Moulton in history Edna St. Vincent Millay in history Years they were given

On the map

About 338 km separate Pomfret, Connecticut, USA from Rockland, Maine, USA. Shared ground: United States.

Louise Chandler Moulton

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Open both on the History Atlas

Themes they return to

Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.

Shared

love death grief nature life beauty

Louise Chandler Moulton only

enduring islands earthly shore quest paradise

Edna St. Vincent Millay only

world self desire beloved pain women memory woman heart sonnet

From the biographies

Louise Chandler Moulton: pomfret connecticut, william upham moulton, this that and the other, may-flowers, bed-time stories, boston literary salon, james mcneill whistler, edmund clarence stedman. Edna St. Vincent Millay: rockland, maine, austerlitz, new york, pulitzer prize, renascence, caroline b. dow, vassar college, greenwich village, a few figs from thistles.

Poems that secretly rhyme

The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.

Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
80%
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Elegy
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
79% love
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Ebb
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
79% death, nature
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Elegy before Death
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
79% death, grief, nature
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The Death of Autumn
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
78% death
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To a Poet that Died Young
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
78% death, grief
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Dirge
Edna St. Vincent Millay

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1892 Opening of Ellis Island
1892 Valéry undergoes the Genoa crisis
1893 Co-founding of the Gaelic League
1893 Delivery of 'The Necessity for De-Anglicizing Ireland' Speech
1893 Publication of 'The Hound of Heaven'
1894 Death of Robert Louis Stevenson
1894 Valéry begins his lifelong notebooks
1895 Publication of 'The Red Badge of Courage'

Louise Chandler Moulton

1850 Education at the Hartford Female Seminary
1870 Publication of 'The Backlog'
1880 Friendship with Henry James
1881 Publication of 'Poems and Sonnets'
1885 Involvement with the Boston literary community
1892 Publication of 'The New Poetry'
1901 Publication of 'The Poet's Corner'
1907 Final publication of 'The Last Poems'

Edna St. Vincent Millay

1907 Publication of 'Renascence' and Early Recognition
1913 Matriculation at Vassar College
1917 Graduation from Vassar College
1917 Move to Greenwich Village
1917 Publication of 'Renascence and Other Poems'
1923 Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1923 Publication of 'The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems'
1936 Car Accident Causing Chronic Pain and Leading to Drug Dependency (1936)

Emotional landscapes

Louise Chandler Moulton: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow. Edna St. Vincent Millay: Longing, Sorrow, Despair.

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