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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.

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

W. H. Davies W. H. Davies

Poet B

Arthur Symons Arthur Symons
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 75% Poems 91% Blended 82%
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W. H. Davies

W. H. Davies

3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940 (~69)
23 live poems · English

William Henry Davies, known throughout his writing life as W. H. Davies, was born on 3 July 1871 at 16 Portland Street in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, and died on 26 September 1940 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. He remains one of the most unusual figures in twentieth-century British literature: a poet of birds, rain, flowers, beggars, exhausted workers, roadside freedom, and the precarious dignity of people whom r…

“I want to see the books around me as my own property, else the sight of them grieves me.”

Neighbourhood: Edwardian Poets, Georgian Poets, Nature Poets, Welsh Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Wonder, Longing
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Arthur Symons

Arthur Symons

28 February 1865 – 22 January 1945 (~80)
23 live poems · English

Arthur Symons was born on 28 February 1865 at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, into a household shaped by religious discipline, frequent movement, and intellectual aspiration. He was the son of the Reverend Arthur Symons, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and Mary Ann Symons. His father’s ministry required the family to move from place to place, and the boy’s childhood was therefore less rooted in one local communit…

“The feast he spreads for us is a very Trimalchio's feast, the heaped profusion, the vaunting prodigality, which brings a surfeit.”

Neighbourhood: Decadent Poets, Edwardian Poets, Symbolist Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder
Listen Timeline Affinities

In time

W. H. Davies
Arthur Symons
1865 1945
They overlapped for 70 years (1871–1940). When W. H. Davies was born, Arthur Symons was about 6. Arthur Symons was about 75 when W. H. Davies died.
W. H. Davies in history Arthur Symons in history Years they were given

On the map

About 143 km separate Newport, Wales from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Both have ground in Cymru / Wales.

W. H. Davies

Arthur Symons

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 world beauty love beloved self

W. H. Davies only

nature social birds power spring clouds mother tree happiness green

Arthur Symons only

woman desire light eyes memory face urban reality consciousness dawn

From the biographies

W. H. Davies: newport, monmouthshire, the soul destroyer, leisure, george bernard shaw, edward thomas, super-tramp, the autobiography of a super-tramp. Arthur Symons: milford haven, wales, reverend arthur symons, days and nights, silhouettes, london literary life, rhymers' club, w. b. yeats.

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.

Love's Inspiration
W. H. Davies
86% love, beloved
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Love in Dreams
Arthur Symons
Joy Supreme
W. H. Davies
83% beloved
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Love in Dreams
Arthur Symons
Love's Inspiration
W. H. Davies
80% love
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L'Amour Par Terre
Arthur Symons
Love's Inspiration
W. H. Davies
80% love, beloved
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Her Street
Arthur Symons
An Early Love
W. H. Davies
80% love, beloved
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Love in Dreams
Arthur Symons
Love's Caution
W. H. Davies
80% love
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L'Amour Par Terre
Arthur Symons

The world around them

While their lives overlapped

Notable events from the years they were both alive.

1871 Publication of 'Middlemarch'
1871 Publication of 'Rimas'
1873 Maxwell publishes Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in Cambridge
1873 Rimbaud's 'A Season in Hell' Composition
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 Robert Koch Discovers the Tuberculosis Bacillus

W. H. Davies

1893 Davies's Departure for America
1899 Injury and Loss of Foot
1905 Publication of 'The Soul's Destroyer'
1905 Return to England and Early Publications
1908 Publication of 'The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp'
1916 Publication of 'Nature Poems'
1930 Publication of 'Collected Poems'
1934 Publication of 'Collected Poems'

Arthur Symons

1880 Extensive Travels in France and Italy
1889 Publication of 'Days and Nights'
1895 Publication of 'London Nights'
1896 Symons Edits The Savoy Magazine
1899 Publication of 'The Symbolist Movement in Literature'
1900 Travel to Paris and Influence of French Culture
1901 Marriage to Rhoda Bowser
1908 Mental Breakdown in Italy

Emotional landscapes

W. H. Davies: Tenderness, Wonder, Longing. Arthur Symons: Longing, Sorrow, Wonder.

Compare their emotional landscapes
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