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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. 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


Theme Timeline

Pick a theme and see how often it shows up across 50-year cohorts of V2Melody poets. Bars are normalised so small cohorts don't get drowned out by large ones.

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“dream” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
dreams 23 poems dreamer 5 poems dreaming 2 poems dreamlike 1 poem dreamers 1 poem dreame 1 poem daydream 1 poem dream'd 1 poem

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below.

pre-1500 0 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 12 1550s 3 / 93 1600s 2 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 3 / 165 1800s 10 / 699 1850s 22 / 966 1900s 22 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Beauty sat bathing by a spring
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Beauty sat bathing by a spring

by Anthony Munday · English

Anthony Munday portrait

c. 13 October 1560 - 10 August 1633 (~73)

Rest, sweet nymphs
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Rest, sweet nymphs

by Francis Pilkington · English

Francis Pilkington portrait

c. 1565 - 1638 (~73)

In Youth Is Pleasure
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In Youth Is Pleasure

by Robert Wever · English

Robert Wever portrait

c. 1520 - c. 1570 (~50)

The Dreame
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The Dreame

by John Donne · English

John Donne portrait

1572 - 31 March 1631 (~59)

The Dreame
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The Dreame

by Ben Jonson · English

Ben Jonson portrait

c. 11 June 1572 - 6 August 1637 (~65)

The Chimney-Sweeper
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The Chimney-Sweeper

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

A Dream
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A Dream

by William Blake · English

William Blake portrait

28 November 1757 - 12 August 1827 (~70)

Dream of Soft Delight
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Dream of Soft Delight

by Amelia Alderson Opie · English

Amelia Alderson Opie portrait

12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853 (~84)

La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad
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La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad

by John Keats · English

John Keats portrait

31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821 (~26)

Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!
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Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · English

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley portrait

30 August 1797 - 1 February 1851 (~54)

A Dream within a Dream
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A Dream within a Dream

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

Edgar Allan Poe portrait

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
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The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see

by Edgar Allan Poe · English

Edgar Allan Poe portrait

19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 (~40)

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