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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.

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

Thomas Nashe Thomas Nashe

Poet B

George Peele George Peele
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.

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Thomas Nashe

Thomas Nashe

1567 – c. 1601 (~34)
1 live poem · English

Thomas Nashe, baptized on 26 November 1567 and probably born shortly before that date in Lowestoft, Suffolk, was one of the most brilliant, abrasive, inventive, and precarious figures of the English Renaissance. He died sometime after 1599 and is conventionally assigned a death date of about 1601, though the circumstances and exact date remain unknown. In a life that appears to have lasted little more than three deca…

“The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.”

Neighbourhood: Elizabethan Poets, Light Verse Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Despair, Sorrow, Fear
George Peele

George Peele

c. 25 July 1556 – 9 November 1596 (~40)
2 live poems · English

In the pantheon of Elizabethan literary giants, where Shakespeare reigns supreme and Marlowe commands reverence, the name George Peele often languishes in relative obscurity. Yet this neglect does a profound disservice to a playwright and poet whose contributions to English literature were both innovative and influential. Born around 1556 and dying in 1596 at the tragically young age of forty, Peele packed into his b…

Neighbourhood: Dramatic Poets, Elizabethan Poets, Irish Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Sensuality, Tenderness, Longing

In time

Thomas Nashe
George Peele
1556 1601
They overlapped for 30 years (1567–1596). When Thomas Nashe was born, George Peele was about 11. Thomas Nashe was about 29 when George Peele died.

On the map

About 168 km separate Lowestoft, Suffolk, England from London, England. Shared ground: United Kingdom.

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

university wits london

Thomas Nashe: lowestoft, william nashe, janet nashe, the anatomy of absurdity, pierce penniless, a litany in time of plague, martin marprelate controversy, university wits. George Peele: london, christ's hospital, broadgates hall, oxford, university wits, the arraignment of paris, the old wives' tale, edward i.

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.

In Time of Plague
Thomas Nashe
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Bethsabe's Song
George Peele
In Time of Plague
Thomas Nashe
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What Thing Is Love
George Peele

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

Emotional landscapes

Thomas Nashe: Despair, Sorrow, Fear. George Peele: Sensuality, Tenderness, Longing.

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