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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 Rowland Sill Edward Rowland Sill

Poet B

Ebenezer Jones Ebenezer Jones
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 74% Poems 82% Blended 77%
Swap sides Another related pair
Edward Rowland Sill

Edward Rowland Sill

29 April 1841 – 27 February 1887 (~46)
2 live poems · English

Edward Rowland Sill was born on 29 April 1841 in Windsor, Connecticut, and died on 27 February 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio. His life was short, frequently unsettled, and shadowed by poor health, yet it produced a body of poetry and prose distinguished by moral seriousness, intellectual candor, and an unusual tenderness toward ordinary human weakness. He belonged to the generation of American writers who came after the fi…

“I more and more believe the only way for ordinary mortals is to keep out of sight, and write anonymously.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Devotional Poets, Nature Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Wonder, Peace, Spirituality
Listen Timeline Affinities
Ebenezer Jones

Ebenezer Jones

20 January 1820 – 14 September 1860 (~40)
2 live poems · English

Ebenezer Jones was born in Islington, then a northern suburb of London, on 20 January 1820, and died in London on 14 September 1860, only forty years old. During his lifetime he was almost wholly unknown as a poet, and for decades after his death his name survived chiefly as a curiosity in bibliographies and among a small number of readers with a taste for neglected Victorian oddities. Yet his reputation gradually al…

Neighbourhood: Modernist Poets, Symbolist Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Sorrow, Tenderness
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

Edward Rowland Sill
Ebenezer Jones
1820 1887
They overlapped for 20 years (1841–1860). When Edward Rowland Sill was born, Ebenezer Jones was about 21. Edward Rowland Sill was about 19 when Ebenezer Jones died.
Edward Rowland Sill in history Ebenezer Jones in history Years they were given

On the map

About 5,403 km separate Windsor, Connecticut, USA from Islington, London, England. Shared ground: United Kingdom.

Edward Rowland Sill

Ebenezer Jones

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 Rowland Sill only

sword power king courage broken life friend honey clouds self

Ebenezer Jones only

beauty pain suffering wisdom world storm vain vicar social vicarage winter domestic

From the biographies

Edward Rowland Sill: windsor, connecticut, cleveland, ohio, the hermitage and other poems, the venus of milo and other poems, harvard divinity school, mary b. sill, university of california, transcendentalism. Ebenezer Jones: islington, studies of sensation and event, victorian poetry, percy bysshe shelley, john keats, robert browning, chartism, commercial realities.

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.

Living
Edward Rowland Sill
78%
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To live in vain! to live in pain
Ebenezer Jones
Living
Edward Rowland Sill
72%
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The Vicarage
Ebenezer Jones
Opportunity
Edward Rowland Sill
71%
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To live in vain! to live in pain
Ebenezer Jones
Opportunity
Edward Rowland Sill
66%
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The Vicarage
Ebenezer Jones

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1842 First Pale Lager Brewed in Pilsen
1845 Great Famine in Ireland (1845)
1845 The Outbreak of the Irish Potato Famine
1845 Thoreau's Walden Experiment Begins
1846 Publication of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
1846 Thoreau's Arrest for Civil Disobedience
1847 Publication of Agnes Grey
1848 Publication of The Biglow Papers

Edward Rowland Sill

1844 Relocation to Cuyahoga Falls
1859 Education at Yale College
1867 First Published Poem
1870 Marriage to Mary E. Sill
1876 Teaching Career at the University of California
1882 Publication of 'The Poems of Edward Rowland Sill'
1886 Illness and Declining Health
1888 Final Poems Published Posthumously

Ebenezer Jones

1845 Publication of 'The Legend of the Golden Fleece'
1847 Marriage to Mary Ann
1848 Birth of First Child
1853 Publication of 'The Poetical Works of Ebenezer Jones'
1855 Death of Father
1856 Publication of 'The New Spirit'

Emotional landscapes

Edward Rowland Sill: Wonder, Peace, Spirituality. Ebenezer Jones: Irony, Sorrow, Tenderness.

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