"Echoless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... backward, O Time, in your flight; Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers a loving watch keep;— Rock me to sleep, ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... as he leaned over the parapet in the breathless stillness, his alert ear missed an accustomed murmur of the night. Baalbek was lulled to sleep by the ever-present tinkle of running water, the most delicious sound that can soothe an Eastern ear, accustomed as it is to the echoless silence of ...
— The Strong Arm • Robert Barr
... a grave, My breast a voiceless choir— Speak not to the echoless cave, Touch not the ...
— Poems • Sam G. Goodrich |
