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.

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

Lola Ridge Lola Ridge

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 72% Poems 86% Blended 78%
Swap sides Another related pair
Lola Ridge

Lola Ridge

12 December 1873 – 19 May 1941 (~68)
2 live poems · English

Lola Ridge stands as a compelling and somewhat enigmatic figure in the landscape of early twentieth-century American poetry. While her name may not resonate with the same immediate recognition as her contemporaries Ezra Pound, H.D., or William Carlos Williams, her contribution to the modernist movement was profound, particularly in her fusion of avant-garde aesthetics with unflinching social realism. Born on December…

“I shall try to show that woman has not only a creative will, but a very great future in creative art.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Edwardian Poets, Irish Poets, Modernist Poets, Political Poets, Social Justice Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Despair, Irony
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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…

“The desire to 'quintessentialize,' to head-up an emotion until it burns white-hot, seems to be an integral part of the modern temper.”

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Imagist Poets, LGBTQ+ Poets, Modernist Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder
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In time

Lola Ridge
Amy Lowell
1873 1941
They overlapped for 52 years (1874–1925). When Amy Lowell was born, Lola Ridge was about 1. Lola Ridge was about 52 when Amy Lowell died.
Lola Ridge in history Amy Lowell in history Years they were given

On the map

About 4,809 km separate Dublin, Ireland from Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Shared ground: United States.

Lola Ridge

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

life beauty world

Lola Ridge only

woman jewels excess grotesque empathy fire smoke suffering violence victims power

Amy Lowell only

love beloved self loss music identity social tool railing grey wine tasteless

From the biographies

social

Lola Ridge: greenwich village, the ghetto, red flag, sun-up and other poems, david lyman, the little review, margaret anderson, social realism. 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.

The Woman with Jewels
Lola Ridge
78% beauty
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Music
Amy Lowell
The Woman with Jewels
Lola Ridge
77% beauty
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The Captured Goddess
Amy Lowell
The Woman with Jewels
Lola Ridge
76% beauty
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Little Ivory Figures Pulled with String
Amy Lowell
The Woman with Jewels
Lola Ridge
75% life
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A Petition
Amy Lowell
The Woman with Jewels
Lola Ridge
74%
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Stupidity
Amy Lowell
The Woman with Jewels
Lola Ridge
73%
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Apology
Amy Lowell

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1876 1876-78 Super El Niño Causes Worldwide Famines
1876 Gerard Manley Hopkins composes his major poems
1879 Edison Demonstrates the Carbon-Filament Incandescent Lamp
1882 Nietzsche Declares 'God is Dead'
1882 Robert Koch Discovers the Tuberculosis Bacillus
1883 Emil Christian Hansen Isolates a Pure Yeast Culture at Carlsberg
1883 Friedrich Nietzsche Publishes 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'
1883 Publication of 'Treasure Island'

Lola Ridge

1895 Move to San Francisco
1915 Move to New York City
1918 Editorial Role at 'The Little Review'
1920 Friendship with William Carlos Williams
1920 Involvement in the New York Poetry Scene
1920 Publication of 'The Ghetto' in 1920
1927 Publication of 'Red Flag'
1935 Publication of 'The Dark Hills' in 1935

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

Lola Ridge: Sorrow, Despair, Irony. Amy Lowell: Longing, Tenderness, Wonder.

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