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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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“rose” across the centuries

Related terms Include related catalogue terms in the chart (each poem counted once per era, even if it has several tags).
roses 23 poems rosebud 2 poems rosemary 2 poems primrose 2 poems primroses 1 poem montrose 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 2 / 93 1600s 6 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 1 / 36 1750s 8 / 165 1800s 6 / 699 1850s 25 / 966 1900s 24 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

The Prais of Aige
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The Prais of Aige

by Robert Henryson · English

Robert Henryson portrait

c. 1425 - c. 1500 (~75)

O Romeo, Romeo!
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O Romeo, Romeo!

by William Shakespeare · English

William Shakespeare portrait

c. 23 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 (~52)

To His Forsaken Mistress
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To His Forsaken Mistress

by Sir Robert Ayton · English

Sir Robert Ayton portrait

1570 - 25 February 1638 (~68)

Virtue
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Virtue

by George Herbert · English

George Herbert portrait

3 April 1593 - 1 March 1633 (~40)

Go, Lovely Rose
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Go, Lovely Rose

by Edmund Waller · English

Edmund Waller portrait

3 March 1606 - 21 October 1687 (~81)

To the Rose
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To the Rose

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

What is beauty
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What is beauty

by Thomas Greaves · English

Thomas Greaves portrait

c. 1575 - c. 1620 (~45)

A Rose
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A Rose

by Sir Richard Fanshawe · English

Sir Richard Fanshawe portrait

12 June 1608 - June 1666 (~58)

The Rosebud
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The Rosebud

by William Broome · English

William Broome portrait

30 April 1689 - 16 November 1745 (~56)

A Red, Red Rose
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A Red, Red Rose

by Robert Burns · English

Robert Burns portrait

25 January 1759 - 21 July 1796 (~37)

Envy
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Envy

by Mary Lamb · English

Mary Lamb portrait

3 December 1764 - 20 May 1847 (~83)

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