A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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.

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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I 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

Katharine Tynan Hinkson Katharine Tynan Hinkson

Poet B

Grace Fallow Norton Grace Fallow Norton
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 71% Poems 83% Blended 77%
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Katharine Tynan Hinkson

Katharine Tynan Hinkson

23 January 1861 – 2 April 1931 (~70)
2 live poems · English

Katharine Tynan Hinkson, born Katharine Tynan on 23 January 1861 and dead on 2 April 1931, was one of the most industrious and visible Irish writers of her generation. Poet, novelist, reviewer, memoirist, editor, children’s writer, and biographer, she published with a speed and abundance that can make her career seem almost bewildering to a modern reader. Her name is most often associated with the first phase of the…

“I am not especially proud of this facility of mine. It has produced a good deal of honest work, with of course, a good deal of necessary pot-boiling, and it has made some few people happy besides myself.”

Neighbourhood: Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality
Grace Fallow Norton

Grace Fallow Norton

29 October 1876 – 1926 (~50)
4 live poems · English

Grace Fallow Norton, born on 29 October 1876 in Northfield, Minnesota, and deceased in 1926, belongs to that large and consequential company of American poets whose work was respected in its own moment yet gradually slipped from broad public view. Her surviving reputation rests chiefly on a small body of lyric poetry, especially the 1912 collection Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph’s, a book whose title alone suggest…

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Love Poets, Nature Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair

In time

Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Grace Fallow Norton
1861 1931
They overlapped for 51 years (1876–1926). When Grace Fallow Norton was born, Katharine Tynan Hinkson was about 15. Katharine Tynan Hinkson was about 65 when Grace Fallow Norton died.

On the map

About 6,020 km separate Clondalkin, County Dublin, Ireland from Northfield, Minnesota, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

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

From the biographies

christina rossetti women

Katharine Tynan Hinkson: county dublin, whitehall, catholic farming family, w. b. yeats, christina rossetti, irish literary revival, shamrocks and ballads, the handsome brandons. Grace Fallow Norton: northfield, minnesota, little gray songs from st. joseph's, smith college, christina rossetti, elizabeth barrett browning, emily dickinson, brontë sisters.

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.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
77% wind
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Love is a Terrible Thing
Grace Fallow Norton
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
75%
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The Journey
Grace Fallow Norton
Sheep and Lambs
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
72%
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Love is a Terrible Thing
Grace Fallow Norton
Sheep and Lambs
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
71% world
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The Journey
Grace Fallow Norton
Sheep and Lambs
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
68% world
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Oh, the Burden, the Burden of Love Ungiven
Grace Fallow Norton

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

Emotional landscapes

Katharine Tynan Hinkson: Longing, Sorrow, Spirituality. Grace Fallow Norton: Longing, Sorrow, Despair.

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