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📖 POEM: MUSIC - IX - IRIS

Light to the eye and Music to the ear,—
These are the builders of the bridge that springs
From earths's dim shore of half-remembered things
To reach the spirit's home, the heavenly sphere
Where nothing silent is and nothing dark.
So when I see the rainbow's arc
Spanning the showery sky, far-off I hear
Music, and every colour sings:
And while the symphony builds up its round
Full sweep of architectural harmony
Above the tide of Time, far, far away I see
A bow of colour in the bow of sound.

Red as the dawn the trumpet rings,
Imperial purple from the trombone flows,
The mellow horn melts into evening rose.
Blue as the sky, the choir of strings
Darkens in double-bass to ocean's hue,
Rises in violins to noon-tide's blue,
With threads of quivering light shot through and through.
Green as the mantle that the summer flings
Around the world, the pastoral reeds in time
Embroider melodies of May and June.
Yellow as gold,
Yea, thrice-refined gold,
And purer than the treasures of the mine,
Floods of the human voice divine
Along the arch in choral song are rolled.
So bends the bow complete:
And radiant rapture flows
Across the bridge, so full, so strong, so sweet,
That the uplifted spirit hardly knows
Whether the Music-Light that glows
Within the arch of tones and colours seven
Is sunset-peace of earth, or sunrise-joy of Heaven.

Henry van Dyke

Music Magazines - Read & Learn

Follow the news on the latest recordings, concerts, books on music, read interviews with musicians and keep yourself informed on the latest gossip in the music world:

👉 International Piano
Features interviews, reviews and news, showcases out-coming young artists and long-standing top musicians of past and present. For pianists, students, dedicated amateurs and piano lovers.

👉 Classical Music
Presents industry insight for music professionals since 1976.

👉 BBC Music Magazine
The BBC Music Magazine is the layman's guide to the world of classical music which includes downloads, interviews, news, podcasts and much more.

👉 Early Music Today

👉 Musical Times

👉 Gramophone

👉 Opera Now

👉 Music Teacher

👉 Neue Zeitschrift für Musik

👉 Musical Opinion - The oldest classical music magazine in Britain

Most journals will now have online versions or be available in ebook format but paper copies are still in demand. Subscriptions are of course convenient if you have time to read journals and single issues are available at bookshops and other stores as well as online.

Historic Magazines (available online)

👉 The Etude

👉 Die Musik

👉 Neue Berliner Musikzeitung