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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.

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

Genevieve Taggard Genevieve Taggard

Poet B

Amy Lowell Amy Lowell
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 89% Blended 79%
Swap sides Another related pair
Genevieve Taggard

Genevieve Taggard

28 November 1894 – 8 November 1948 (~54)
3 live poems · English

Genevieve Taggard was born on November 28, 1894, in the small farming community of Waitsburg, Washington, a place of dust-choked fields and modest wooden houses that would later stand in stark contrast to the lush paradise of her childhood memories. She died on November 8, 1948, in a New York City hospital, just shy of her fifty-fourth birthday, her body worn down by chronic hypertension that had increasingly confine…

“Marriage is the only profound human experience; all other human angles are its mere rehearsal.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Despair
Listen Timeline Affinities
Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell

9 February 1874 – 12 May 1925 (~51)
8 live poems · English

Amy Lawrence Lowell emerged from the staid drawing rooms of Boston's Brahmin society to become one of the most controversial and influential poets of early twentieth-century America. Born on February 9, 1874, into one of New England's most distinguished families, she would spend her fifty-one years challenging literary conventions, championing new poetic forms, and leaving an indelible mark on American literature. He…

“Merely chopping prose lines into lengths does not produce cadence, it is constructed upon mathematical and absolute laws of balance and time.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Imagist Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

Genevieve Taggard
Amy Lowell
1874 1948
They overlapped for 32 years (1894–1925). When Genevieve Taggard was born, Amy Lowell was about 20. Genevieve Taggard was about 31 when Amy Lowell died.
Genevieve Taggard in history Amy Lowell in history Years they were given

On the map

About 3,717 km separate Waitsburg, Washington, USA from Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Shared ground: United States.

Genevieve Taggard

Amy Lowell

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

social life

Genevieve Taggard only

woman city failure memory detail clock hawaiian dancer hula grace hawaii gaze

Amy Lowell only

world love beloved beauty self loss music identity tool railing grey wine

From the biographies

Genevieve Taggard: waitsburg, washington, honolulu, hawaii, robert l. wolf, marcia liles, for eager lovers, hawaiian hilltop, travelling standing still, the life and mind of emily dickinson. Amy Lowell: boston, imagist movement, ada dwyer russell, sword blades and poppy seed, patterns, the taxi, can grande's castle, tendencies in modern american poetry.

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.

Portygee Lovesong
Genevieve Taggard
80% love, beloved
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A Petition
Amy Lowell
Portygee Lovesong
Genevieve Taggard
80% rain
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Little Ivory Figures Pulled with String
Amy Lowell
Portygee Lovesong
Genevieve Taggard
79% love, beloved
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The Taxi
Amy Lowell
Detail
Genevieve Taggard
77% city
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The Taxi
Amy Lowell
Portygee Lovesong
Genevieve Taggard
76%
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A Blockhead
Amy Lowell
Detail
Genevieve Taggard
76% life
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A Blockhead
Amy Lowell

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1894 Death of Robert Louis Stevenson
1894 Valéry begins his lifelong notebooks
1895 Publication of 'The Red Badge of Courage'
1895 The X-Ray Discovery
1896 Publication of 'A Shropshire Lad'
1896 Publication of 'The Story of the Other Wise Man'
1897 J.J. Thomson discovers the electron at the Cavendish Laboratory
1897 Ronald Ross Demonstrates Mosquito Transmission of Malaria

Genevieve Taggard

1896 Taggard Family Relocation to Hawaii
1921 Taggard Co‑Founds The Measure: A Journal of Poetry
1922 Taggard Publishes First Poetry Collection, For Eager Lovers
1925 Publication of First Poetry Collection
1926 Taggard Publishes Words for the Chisel
1930 Taggard Publishes The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson
1931 Taggard Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship, Travels to Majorca and Capri
1935 Involvement in Labor Activism

Amy Lowell

1910 First Published Poem
1912 Imagism Movement Participation
1912 Publication of 'A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass'
1915 Involvement in Women's Suffrage Movement
1916 Publication of 'Men, Women and Ghosts'
1925 Death of Amy Lowell
1925 Publication of 'What's O'Clock'
1926 Awarded the Pulitzer Prize

Emotional landscapes

Genevieve Taggard: Longing, Sorrow, Despair. Amy Lowell: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder.

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