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


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“women” across the centuries

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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 2 / 183 1650s 2 / 60 1700s 1 / 36 1750s 6 / 165 1800s 6 / 699 1850s 15 / 966 1900s 25 / 1143 1950s 0 / 15

Sample poems · click an era above to focus

Praise of Women
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Praise of Women

by Robert Mannyng of Brunne · English

Robert Mannyng of Brunne portrait

1288 - c. 1338 (~50)

If women could be fair
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If women could be fair

by Edward de Vere · English

Edward de Vere portrait

12 April 1550 - 24 June 1604 (~54)

Love Dislikes Nothing
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Love Dislikes Nothing

by Robert Herrick · English

Robert Herrick portrait

24 August 1591 - 15 October 1674 (~83)

That Women Are but Mens Shaddowes
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That Women Are but Mens Shaddowes

by Ben Jonson · English

Ben Jonson portrait

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

To the Fair Clorinda
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To the Fair Clorinda

by Aphra Behn · English

Aphra Behn portrait

1640 - 16 April 1689 (~49)

An Extempore Elegy
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An Extempore Elegy

by Samuel Johnson · English

Samuel Johnson portrait

18 September 1709 - 13 December 1784 (~75)

January, 1795
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January, 1795

by Mary Robinson · English

Mary Robinson portrait

27 November 1757 - 26 December 1800 (~43)

Mad Song
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Mad Song

by Amelia Alderson Opie · English

Amelia Alderson Opie portrait

12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853 (~84)

The Suicide
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The Suicide

by Amelia Alderson Opie · English

Amelia Alderson Opie portrait

12 November 1769 - 2 December 1853 (~84)

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