Mood Finder

Pick up to five themes that speak to you right now. We'll build a centre-of-gravity from those themes and surface the V2Melody poems whose critiques sit closest to it.

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Today's theme pool

love mortality woman bird rose social body mother flowers eyes death heart grief light loss suffering moon philosophical spiritual hope children irish flower voice landscape pain music self religious lovers sound beauty power sorrow spring silence fear water faith lover domestic divine desire childhood sleep dead earth rain nature romantic dream memory soul women heaven darkness summer winter mind tears youth fire presence existence truth wind freedom tree garden beloved consciousness peace stars river birds grave past city soldier reality

Poems that echo your mood

12 closest matches among poems tagged with any of “perception” or “self” or “philosophical” or “suffering” or “sorrow” .

My life closed twice before its close

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My life closed twice before its close

Emily Dickinson

10 December 1830 - 15 May 1886 (~56)

The Hermit

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The Hermit

James Beattie

25 October 1735 - 18 August 1803 (~68)

Sad Songs Remembered

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Sad Songs Remembered

Philip Bourke Marston

13 August 1850 - 13 February 1887 (~37)

The Darkling Thrush

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The Darkling Thrush

Thomas Hardy

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

Human Life

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Human Life

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 (~62)

Could I but harmonise one kindly thought

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Could I but harmonise one kindly thought

Hartley Coleridge

19 September 1796 - 6 January 1849 (~53)

Be still, my soul

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Be still, my soul

A.E.Housman

26 March 1859 - 30 April 1936 (~77)

The clouds that are so light

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The clouds that are so light

Edward Thomas

3 March 1878 - 9 April 1917 (~39)

Bright was the morning cool the Air

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Bright was the morning cool the Air

Thomas Shadwell

c. 1642 - 19 November 1692 (~50)

Vitae Summa Brevis

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Vitae Summa Brevis

Ernest Dowson

2 August 1867 - 23 February 1900 (~33)

Manners

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Manners

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25 May 1803 - 27 April 1882 (~79)

Despair

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Despair

Ada Cambridge

21 November 1844 - 19 July 1926 (~82)

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