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


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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“moon” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
moonlight 10 poems moonlit 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 1 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 12 1550s 0 / 93 1600s 0 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 2 / 36 1750s 0 / 165 1800s 12 / 699 1850s 8 / 966 1900s 22 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Quiet Night Thoughts
Available versions

Quiet Night Thoughts

by Li Bai · Mandarin Chinese

Li Bai portrait

701 - 762 (~61)

A Hymn to the Moon
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A Hymn to the Moon

by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · English

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu portrait

May 1689 - 21 August 1762 (~73)

Up in the Air
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Up in the Air

by Allan Ramsay · English

Allan Ramsay portrait

c. 15 October 1684 - 7 January 1758 (~74)

The Cloud
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The Cloud

by Percy Bysshe Shelley · English

Percy Bysshe Shelley portrait

4 August 1792 - 8 July 1822 (~30)

Sleep, Baby, Sleep
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Sleep, Baby, Sleep

by Elizabeth Prentiss · English

Elizabeth Prentiss portrait

26 October 1818 - 13 August 1878 (~60)

There be none of Beauty's daughters
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There be none of Beauty's daughters

by Lord Byron · English

Lord Byron portrait

22 January 1788 - 19 April 1824 (~36)

The Bridge
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The Bridge

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portrait

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

The Harvest Moon
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The Harvest Moon

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portrait

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Moonlight
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Moonlight

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · English

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow portrait

27 February 1807 - 24 March 1882 (~75)

Shut Out that Moon
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Shut Out that Moon

by Thomas Hardy · English

Thomas Hardy portrait

2 June 1840 - 11 January 1928 (~88)

A Wintry Sonnet
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A Wintry Sonnet

by Christina Rossetti · English

Christina Rossetti portrait

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Nocturnal Vigils
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Nocturnal Vigils

by Alfred Austin · English

Alfred Austin portrait

30 May 1835 - 2 June 1913 (~78)

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