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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

Louise Chandler Moulton Louise Chandler Moulton

Poet B

Alice Meynell Alice Meynell
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 75% Poems 85% Blended 80%
Swap sides Another related pair
Louise Chandler Moulton

Louise Chandler Moulton

10 April 1835 – 10 August 1908 (~73)
2 live poems · English

In the quiet Connecticut countryside of Pomfret, on April 10, 1835, a child was born who would become one of the most influential literary figures of the late nineteenth century, though her name today is less remembered than the glittering circle of writers and artists she championed. Ellen Louise Chandler, who would later be known to the literary world as Louise Chandler Moulton, emerged from circumstances that seem…

“I was lonely, and I sought companions. What was there to do but to create them?”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Love Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow
Listen Timeline Affinities
Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

11 October 1847 – 27 November 1922 (~75)
3 live poems · English

Alice Meynell, born Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson on 11 October 1847 and dead on 27 November 1922, was one of the most distinctive English writers to work across the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. A poet of exquisite compression, an essayist of alert and sensuous intelligence, a critic, editor, Catholic public intellectual, and campaigner for women’s suffrage, she made a literary identity that cannot be r…

“The principal part of faith is patience.”

Neighbourhood: Devotional Poets, Edwardian Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Tenderness
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

Louise Chandler Moulton
Alice Meynell
1835 1922
They overlapped for 62 years (1847–1908). When Alice Meynell was born, Louise Chandler Moulton was about 12. Alice Meynell was about 61 when Louise Chandler Moulton died.
Louise Chandler Moulton in history Alice Meynell in history Years they were given

On the map

About 5,348 km separate Pomfret, Connecticut, USA from Barnes, London, England. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

Louise Chandler Moulton

Alice Meynell

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

love life

Louise Chandler Moulton only

death grief enduring nature islands beauty earthly shore quest paradise

Alice Meynell only

thrush bird listener sound gardens garden heart birds self beloved silence music

From the biographies

Louise Chandler Moulton: pomfret connecticut, william upham moulton, this that and the other, may-flowers, bed-time stories, boston literary salon, james mcneill whistler, edmund clarence stedman. Alice Meynell: edwardian, wilfrid meynell, preludes, renouncement, catholicism, francis thompson, the colour of life, the lady poverty.

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 Quest
Louise Chandler Moulton
77% life
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To the Beloved
Alice Meynell
A Quest
Louise Chandler Moulton
75%
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A Thrush Before Dawn
Alice Meynell
A Quest
Louise Chandler Moulton
75%
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My heart shall be thy garden
Alice Meynell
Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
75% love
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To the Beloved
Alice Meynell
Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
73% love
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My heart shall be thy garden
Alice Meynell
Hic Jacet
Louise Chandler Moulton
69%
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A Thrush Before Dawn
Alice Meynell

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1847 Publication of Agnes Grey
1848 Communist Manifesto Published
1848 Publication of 'All Things Bright and Beautiful'
1848 Publication of 'Once in Royal David's City'
1848 Publication of The Biglow Papers
1848 Publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1850 Publication of 'In Memoriam A.H.H.'
1851 Publication of Moby-Dick

Louise Chandler Moulton

1850 Education at the Hartford Female Seminary
1870 Publication of 'The Backlog'
1880 Friendship with Henry James
1881 Publication of 'Poems and Sonnets'
1885 Involvement with the Boston literary community
1892 Publication of 'The New Poetry'
1901 Publication of 'The Poet's Corner'
1907 Final publication of 'The Last Poems'

Alice Meynell

1868 Alice Meynell's First Published Work
1872 Alice Meynell's Conversion to Roman Catholicism
1877 Marriage to Wilfrid Meynell
1890 Publication of 'The Rhythm of Life'
1897 Alice Meynell's Involvement in the Women's Suffrage Movement
1903 Publication of 'The Poems of Alice Meynell'
1915 Death of Alice Meynell's Husband
1921 Publication of 'Last Poems'

Emotional landscapes

Louise Chandler Moulton: Longing, Tenderness, Sorrow. Alice Meynell: Longing, Spirituality, Tenderness.

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