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.

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

Charlotte Mew Charlotte Mew

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 76% Poems 85% Blended 80%
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Charlotte Mew

Charlotte Mew

15 November 1869 – 24 March 1928 (~59)
2 live poems · English

Charlotte Mew, born Charlotte Mary Mew on 15 November 1869 and dead on 24 March 1928, occupies a singular and often haunting position in English poetry. She was admired in her own lifetime by writers as different as Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried Sassoon, and Ezra Pound, yet her name later slipped from general literary view before being powerfully recovered by feminist, queer, and modernis…

“It seems to me that in the cri de coeur one either has or has not the person, and if the author is not right here he is past mending.”

Neighbourhood: Confessional Poets, Death & Mortality, Edwardian Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
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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…

“Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.”

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

In time

Charlotte Mew
Edna St. Vincent Millay
1869 1950
They overlapped for 37 years (1892–1928). When Edna St. Vincent Millay was born, Charlotte Mew was about 23. Edna St. Vincent Millay was about 36 when Charlotte Mew died.
Charlotte Mew in history Edna St. Vincent Millay in history Years they were given

On the map

About 5,023 km separate London, England from Rockland, Maine, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

Charlotte Mew

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

self death life world memory desire

Charlotte Mew only

rooms room grave peddler selves ghosts social books road

Edna St. Vincent Millay only

love beloved beauty nature grief pain women woman heart sonnet

From the biographies

women desire

Charlotte Mew: london, thomas hardy, virginia woolf, the farmer's bride, the yellow book, bloomsbury, siegfried sassoon, ezra pound. 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.

The Peddler
Charlotte Mew
79%
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Recuerdo
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Peddler
Charlotte Mew
79% road
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The Unexplorer
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rooms
Charlotte Mew
79% life, world
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Ashes of Life
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Peddler
Charlotte Mew
78%
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The Dream
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rooms
Charlotte Mew
78% life
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What lips my lips have kissed
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rooms
Charlotte Mew
78% memory
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Wraith
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'

Charlotte Mew

1880 Education at Lucy Harrison School for Girls
1894 First Publication in The Yellow Book
1898 Death of Father
1911 Move to Bloomsbury
1916 Publication of 'The Farmer's Bride'
1921 Publication of 'The Complete 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

Charlotte Mew: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow. Edna St. Vincent Millay: Longing, Sorrow, Despair.

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