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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.

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.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this 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

Edward Coote Pinkney Edward Coote Pinkney

Poet B

Thomas Godfrey Thomas Godfrey
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 77% Blended 77%
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Edward Coote Pinkney

Edward Coote Pinkney

1 October 1802 – 11 April 1828 (~26)
2 live poems · English

In the pantheon of American Romantic poetry, few figures burn as brightly—or as briefly—as Edward Coote Pinkney. Born into privilege on October 1, 1802, in London, England, and dying in poverty on April 11, 1828, in Baltimore, Maryland, Pinkney's twenty-five years encompassed a lifetime of passion, rebellion, literary brilliance, and ultimately, tragic unfulfillment. His story reads like a cautionary tale of artistic…

“I have received your singular answer to my note. Reconsider its subject, and write more to my satisfaction before the evening, or I will post you in the worst terms that contempt can devise.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Romantic Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Longing, Wonder
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Thomas Godfrey

Thomas Godfrey

4 December 1736 – 3 August 1763 (~27)
1 live poem · English

In the fertile but unsettled literary soil of colonial America, the figure of Thomas Godfrey stands as both a beacon and a cautionary tale—the first native-born American poet to publish a volume of verse, yet a voice largely forgotten by the canon that followed. His brief life—spanning only twenty-seven years from 1736 to 1763—was marked by intellectual ambition, poetic sensitivity, and a tragic trajectory that encap…

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Augustan Poets, Colonial American Poets, Death & Mortality, Love Poets, Social Justice Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Sensuality, Wonder
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In time

Edward Coote Pinkney
Thomas Godfrey
1736 1828
Their lives did not overlap. 39 years separate the earlier death from the later birth.
Edward Coote Pinkney in history Thomas Godfrey in history Years they were given

On the map

About 5,697 km separate London, England from Camden, New Jersey, USA. Shared ground: United States.

Edward Coote Pinkney

Thomas Godfrey

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.

Edward Coote Pinkney only

beauty beloved life woman voice world darkness sleep serenade stars lover eyes

Thomas Godfrey only

wine inspiration bacchus dithyramb

From the biographies

romantic

Edward Coote Pinkney: london, baltimore, william pinkney, ann maria rodgers pinkney, the indian's bride, rodolph, a health, the widow's song. Thomas Godfrey: philadelphia, hugh williamson, the court of fancy, elegy on the death of a young lady, benjamin franklin, colonial america, neoclassical, romantic sensibility.

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.

A Health
Edward Coote Pinkney
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A Dithyrambic on Wine
Thomas Godfrey
A Serenade
Edward Coote Pinkney
64%
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A Dithyrambic on Wine
Thomas Godfrey

The world around them

Edward Coote Pinkney

1804 Family Relocation to Baltimore
1815 Education at St. Mary's College
1825 First Published Poem
1826 Friendship with Edgar Allan Poe
1826 Publication of 'The Poems of Edward Coote Pinkney'
1827 Struggles with Poverty
1828 Final Days in Baltimore

Thomas Godfrey

1740 Thomas Godfrey's Early Education
1750 Friendship with Benjamin Franklin
1750 Influence of Enlightenment Thinkers
1758 Marriage to Mary Godfrey
1760 Publication of 'The Prince of Parthia'
1761 Relocation to New York City
1763 Death of Thomas Godfrey
1763 Publication of 'The Works of Thomas Godfrey'

Emotional landscapes

Edward Coote Pinkney: Tenderness, Longing, Wonder. Thomas Godfrey: Joy, Sensuality, Wonder.

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