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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

A. Mary F. Robinson A. Mary F. Robinson

Poet B

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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 71% Poems 91% Blended 80%
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A. Mary F. Robinson

A. Mary F. Robinson

27 February 1857 – 9 February 1944 (~87)
12 live poems · English

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, who published most often as A. Mary F. Robinson and became successively known in France as Madame Darmesteter and Madame Duclaux, was born on 27 February 1857 in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, and died in Aurillac, France, on 9 February 1944. Her unusually long life carried her from the high Victorian age into the Second World War; her writing career connected English Romantic and aestheti…

“But if I see the necessary grace that they possess, how clearly, alas! do I perceive the magnificent qualities they lack!”

Neighbourhood: Decadent Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Love Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

5 November 1850 – 30 October 1919 (~69)
22 live poems · English

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born on 5 November 1850 in Johnstown Center, Wisconsin, a rural community whose fields, seasons, family routines, and wide horizons remained central to her imaginative life. She died on 30 October 1919 at her home in Short Beach, Connecticut, only days before her sixty-ninth birthday. Between those dates she became one of the most widely read poets in the United States. Her name was known in p…

“How much better to expatiate in its presence on the blessing of rain, and to teach it the enjoyment of all nature's varying moods.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

A. Mary F. Robinson
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1850 1944
They overlapped for 63 years (1857–1919). When A. Mary F. Robinson was born, Ella Wheeler Wilcox was about 7. A. Mary F. Robinson was about 62 when Ella Wheeler Wilcox died.
A. Mary F. Robinson in history Ella Wheeler Wilcox in history Years they were given

On the map

About 6,236 km separate Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England from Johnstown Center, Wisconsin, USA. Different countries, different weather — unless a poem carries one landscape into the other.

A. Mary F. Robinson

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

life memory grief love death

A. Mary F. Robinson only

world beauty flowers trees crimson heart broken treasure miser dreams dreaming

Ella Wheeler Wilcox only

pain suffering self spiritual social light soul passion sorrow power fate

From the biographies

A. Mary F. Robinson: leamington spa, aurillac, madame darmesteter, madame duclaux, a handful of honeysuckle, the new arcadia, emily brontë, james darmesteter. Ella Wheeler Wilcox: johnstown center, short beach, solitude, poems of passion, robert m. wilcox, positive thinking, the voice of the voiceless, women's suffrage.

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.

Maidens
A. Mary F. Robinson
80% courage
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Courage
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Neurasthenia
A. Mary F. Robinson
80%
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Desolation
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Writing History
A. Mary F. Robinson
79% past
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Regret
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Widow
A. Mary F. Robinson
78% death
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Desolation
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Road Leading Nowhere
A. Mary F. Robinson
78% life
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Existence
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Widow
A. Mary F. Robinson
78% life, memory
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Time and Love
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1857 Pasteur Demonstrates the Biological Basis of Fermentation
1858 Publication of 'There is a Green Hill Far Away'
1858 Publication of Ionica
1859 Discovery of Oil at Drake Well Sparks Pennsylvania Petroleum Boom
1859 First Commercial Oil Well Drilled in Titusville
1859 Publication of 'Adam Bede'
1859 The Carrington Event Aurora
1860 Publication of 'Eternal Father, Strong to Save'

A. Mary F. Robinson

1865 Early Education of A. Mary F. Robinson
1881 Publication of A Handful of Honeysuckle
1885 Move to Paris
1897 Publication of The Poetry of A. Mary F. Robinson
1900 Publication of The New Poetry
1903 Publication of The Heart of a Woman
1931 Publication of The Collected Poems of A. Mary F. Robinson
1939 Publication of The Collected Poems of A. Mary F. Robinson

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1881 Move to New York City
1883 Publication of 'Solitude'
1884 Marriage to Robert Wilcox
1885 Relocation to New York City
1889 Publication of 'Poems of Power'
1911 Death of Robert Wilcox
1918 Publication of 'The World and I'
1919 Final Years and Legacy

Emotional landscapes

A. Mary F. Robinson: Sorrow, Longing, Despair. Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Longing, Spirituality, Sorrow.

Compare their emotional landscapes
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