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. 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

Henry Scott Holland Henry Scott Holland

Poet B

John Keble John Keble
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.

Strongly related
Their work already rhymes in the catalogue. The rest of this page is the story around that rhyme.
Biography 75% Blended 75%
Swap sides Another related pair
Henry Scott Holland

Henry Scott Holland

27 January 1847 – 17 March 1918 (~71)
1 live poem · English

Henry Scott Holland was born on 27 January 1847 at Ledbury, Herefordshire, into a world of Anglican privilege, classical education, and public duty. He died on 17 March 1918 in Oxford, at the close of a life spent attempting to make Christianity answerable to the moral crises of modern society. He was not, in the ordinary sense, a poet: he did not build his reputation through volumes of verse, nor did he belong to th…

“Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner.”

Neighbourhood: Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Mystical & Spiritual Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Peace, Spirituality, Tenderness
Listen Timeline Affinities
John Keble

John Keble

25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866 (~74)
1 live poem · English

John Keble was born on 25 April 1792 at Fairford in Gloucestershire, into a household where religion, learning, family affection, and the rhythms of rural England were closely joined. He would become one of the most widely read poets of nineteenth-century Britain, a distinguished Oxford scholar, a parish priest of unusual devotion, and a formative figure in the movement that sought to recover the Catholic and sacrame…

“Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.”

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

In time

Henry Scott Holland
John Keble
1792 1918
They overlapped for 20 years (1847–1866). When Henry Scott Holland was born, John Keble was about 55. Henry Scott Holland was about 19 when John Keble died.
Henry Scott Holland in history John Keble in history Years they were given

On the map

About 57 km separate Ledbury, Herefordshire, England from Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. Shared ground: United Kingdom.

Henry Scott Holland

John Keble

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

death life

Henry Scott Holland only

dead memory relationship love grief room voice name

John Keble only

leaves keble nature world individual spring landscape november

From the biographies

oxford church religious anglican

Henry Scott Holland: ledbury, herefordshire, oxford, reverend george henry holland, charlotte dorothy, death is nothing at all, creed and character, christian social union. John Keble: fairford, the christian year, oxford movement, national apostasy, john henry newman, praelectiones academicae, hursley, sarah maule keble.

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.

All is Well
Henry Scott Holland
75% death, life
Compare
November
John Keble

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

Henry Scott Holland

1866 Matriculation at Balliol College, Oxford
1872 Ordination as Deacon
1874 Ordination as Priest
1876 Appointment as Senior Student at Christ Church
1890 Publication of 'The Light of the World'
1897 Involvement with the Christian Social Union
1908 Publication of 'The Church and the Future'
1918 Death of Henry Scott Holland

John Keble

1806 Keble's Scholarship to Corpus Christi College
1810 Keble's Double First at Oxford
1811 Election as Fellow of Oriel College
1815 Ordination as Deacon
1827 Publication of 'The Christian Year'
1833 Keble's Involvement in the Oxford Movement
1846 Keble's Appointment as Professor of Poetry at Oxford
1866 Keble's Final Years and Legacy

Emotional landscapes

Henry Scott Holland: Peace, Spirituality, Tenderness. John Keble: Sorrow, Longing, Spirituality.

Skip to main content