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. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

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.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

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

T. Sturge Moore T. Sturge Moore

Poet B

Emanuel Morgan Emanuel Morgan
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.

Strongly related
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 63% Blended 63%
Swap sides Another related pair
T. Sturge Moore

T. Sturge Moore

4 March 1870 – 18 July 1944 (~74)
1 live poem · English

Thomas Sturge Moore, born on 4 March 1870 at Hastings, Sussex, and dead on 18 July 1944 at Windsor, was one of the most distinctive English poet-artists of his generation: a writer of symbolist and classical verse, a critic of painting and artistic purpose, a wood engraver, and an accomplished designer of books. He belonged to that transitional company whose work joined the late Victorian devotion to beauty, craftsma…

“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.”

Neighbourhood: Decadent Poets, Dramatic Poets, Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Spirituality, Longing
Listen Timeline Affinities
Emanuel Morgan

Emanuel Morgan

1916 – 1917 (~1)
1 live poem · English

Emanuel Morgan occupies one of the most unusual positions in American literary history: he was a poet who never existed in the ordinary biographical sense, yet whose poems, reputation, controversies, and afterlife have proved remarkably real. The dates commonly attached to him, 1916–1917, refer not to the span of a human life but to the brief public career of a deliberately invented authorial persona. “Emanuel Morgan…

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Imagist Poets, Light Verse Poets, Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Spirituality, Longing
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

T. Sturge Moore
Emanuel Morgan
1870 1944
They overlapped for 2 years (1916–1917). When Emanuel Morgan was born, T. Sturge Moore was about 46. T. Sturge Moore was about 47 when Emanuel Morgan died.
T. Sturge Moore in history Emanuel Morgan in history Years they were given

On the map

About 5,640 km separate 3 Wellington Square, Hastings, East Sussex from New York City, New York, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

T. Sturge Moore

Emanuel Morgan

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.

No overlapping top terms in the poem critiques — any kinship may sit in mood rather than vocabulary.

T. Sturge Moore only

swan love pain dying beauty suffering death

Emanuel Morgan only

spectres world myth eurydice presence light divine loss

From the biographies

T. Sturge Moore: hastings, windsor, george edward moore, the vinedresser and other poems, the centaur’s booty, the rout of the amazons, classical verse, pre-raphaelites. Emanuel Morgan: spectrism, witter bynner, arthur davison ficke, santa fe, harvard university, tao te ching, mock avant-garde, poetry society of america.

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 Dying Swan
T. Sturge Moore
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Spectres
Emanuel Morgan

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1916 Death in Battle
1916 Discovery of Heparin
1916 Easter Rising Proclaims Irish Republic in Dublin (1916)
1916 Execution and Legacy
1916 Final Years and Legacy
1916 Signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic
1916 The Agonizing Trench Warfare at the Battle of the Somme
1916 The Agonizing Trench Warfare at the Battle of Verdun

T. Sturge Moore

1881 Education at Dulwich College
1888 Artistic Training at Lambeth School of Art
1899 Publication of 'The Vinedresser and Other Poems'
1900 Friendship with W.B. Yeats
1903 Marriage to Mary Sturge Moore
1910 Publication of 'The Poet's Craft'
1920 Publication of 'The Green Book'
1940 Final Years in Hastings

Emanuel Morgan

Emotional landscapes

T. Sturge Moore: Sorrow, Spirituality, Longing. Emanuel Morgan: Wonder, Spirituality, Longing.

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