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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


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pre-1500 2 / 30 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 1 / 12 1550s 3 / 93 1600s 7 / 183 1650s 0 / 60 1700s 0 / 36 1750s 8 / 165 1800s 18 / 699 1850s 26 / 966 1900s 22 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Let Us Drink!
Available versions

Let Us Drink!

by Abu Nuwas · Arabic

Abu Nuwas portrait

c. 756 - c. 814 (~58)

The Wife's Lament
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The Wife's Lament

by Ealhswith of Mercia · Old English

Ealhswith of Mercia portrait

c. 920 - c. 970 (~50)

No Pleasure Without Some Pain
Available versions

No Pleasure Without Some Pain

by Thomas, Lord Vaux · English

Thomas, Lord Vaux portrait

25 April 1509 - c. October 1556 (~47)

Sephestia's Song to Her Child
Available versions

Sephestia's Song to Her Child

by Robert Greene · English

Robert Greene portrait

c. 11 July 1558 - 3 September 1592 (~34)

Short is my rest
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Short is my rest

by William Barley · English

William Barley portrait

c. 1565 - 1614 (~49)

Flow, my tears
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Flow, my tears

by John Dowland · English

John Dowland portrait

c. 1563 - 20 February 1626 (~63)

Come, sable night
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Come, sable night

by John Ward · English

John Ward portrait

8 September 1571 - 1638 (~67)

Oft thou hast with greedy ear
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Oft thou hast with greedy ear

by John Cooper · English

John Cooper portrait

c. 1570 - c. 1626 (~56)

Weep, O mine eyes
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Weep, O mine eyes

by John Bennet · English

John Bennet portrait

c. 1575 - c. 1614 (~39)

Weep no more, thou sorry boy
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Weep no more, thou sorry boy

by Thomas Tomkins · English

Thomas Tomkins portrait

1572 - 9 June 1656 (~84)

The Noble Spanish Soldier
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The Noble Spanish Soldier

by Thomas Dekker · English

Thomas Dekker portrait

c. 1572 - 25 August 1641 (~69)

Melancholy
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Melancholy

by John Fletcher · English

John Fletcher portrait

20 December 1579 - 29 August 1625 (~46)

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