Crossword clues for semichorus
semichorus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Semichorus \Sem"i*cho`rus\, n. (Mus.) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.
Wiktionary
n. (context music English) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, rather than the full choir.
Usage examples of "semichorus".
SEMICHORUS II Heard laughters at the ruthless dooms Which tortured to the eternal glooms Quick, quivering hearts in hecatombs.
SEMICHORUS 2: We encircle the ocean and mountains of earth, And the happy forms of its death and birth Change to the music of our sweet mirth.
SEMICHORUS I OF THE PITIES Snows incarnadined were thine, O Eylau, field of the wide white spaces, And frozen lakes, and frozen limbs, and blood iced hard as it left the veins: Steel-cased squadrons swathed in cloud-drift, plunging to doom through pathless places, And forty thousand dead and near dead, strewing the early-lighted plains.
SEMICHORUS II The Immanent, that urgeth all, Rules what may or may not befall!
SEMICHORUS I Therefore we quire to highest height The Wellwiller, the kindly Might That balances the Vast for weal, That purges as by wounds to heal.
SEMICHORUS II Till gracious zephyrs shoulder on their sails To where the brine of Biscay moans its tragic tales.
SEMICHORUS I Saw ravage, growth, diminish, add, Here peoples sane, there peoples mad, In choiceless throws of good and bad.