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Echo: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again.— ADDISON — Ode for St. Cecilia's Day.

Pursuing echoes calling 'mong the rocks. C.— ABRAHAM COLES — The Microcosm.

Hearing. Powers of Sound. Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.— BARRY CORNWALL — English Songs and

Other Small Poems. The Sea in Calm. Pt. III. Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. IV. L. 149.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.— EMERSON — May-day. L. 439.

Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. * * * * * * And, when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence.— LONGFELLOW — Evangeline. Pt. II. L. 56.

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.— MILTON — Comus. Song.

How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night, When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, And far away, o'er lawns and lakes, Goes answering light.— MOORE — Echo.

And more than echoes talk along the walls.— POPE — Eloisa to Abelard. L. 306.