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

John Keble John Keble

Poet B

Edward Taylor Edward Taylor
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 77% Blended 77%
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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
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Edward Taylor

Edward Taylor

c. 1642 – 24 June 1729 (~87)
1 live poem · English

Edward Taylor was born about 1642, probably in Sketchley, Leicestershire, England, into a world in which political upheaval and religious conviction entered ordinary life with unusual force. He died on 24 June 1729 in Westfield, Massachusetts, after nearly six decades as that frontier town’s minister, physician, teacher, community counselor, and private poet. During his lifetime he was known chiefly as a learned and…

Neighbourhood: American Poets, Colonial American Poets, Devotional Poets, Metaphysical Poets
Emotional landscape: Spirituality, Sorrow, Despair
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

John Keble
Edward Taylor
1642 1866
Their lives did not overlap. 63 years separate the earlier death from the later birth.
John Keble in history Edward Taylor in history Years they were given

On the map

About 95 km separate Fairford, Gloucestershire, England from Sketchley, Leicestershire, England. Both have ground in England.

John Keble

Edward Taylor

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

nature world

John Keble only

leaves keble death individual spring landscape november life

Edward Taylor only

spider puritan spiritual divine wasp grace allegory

From the biographies

religious

John Keble: fairford, the christian year, oxford movement, national apostasy, john henry newman, praelectiones academicae, hursley, sarah maule keble. Edward Taylor: sketchley, leicestershire, westfield, harvard college, elizabeth fitch, james fitch, the lay-man’s lamentation, upon wedlock, and death of children.

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.

November
John Keble
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Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
Edward Taylor

The world around them

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

Edward Taylor

1657 Taylor's Mother's Death
1658 Taylor's Father's Death
1662 Refusal to Conform to the Act of Uniformity
1668 Migration to America
1671 Admission to Harvard College
1676 Ordination as Minister
1685 Publication of 'God's Determinations'
1703 Death of Elizabeth Fitch Taylor

Emotional landscapes

John Keble: Sorrow, Longing, Spirituality. Edward Taylor: Spirituality, Sorrow, Despair.

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