Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.

  1. By the kin-born flowing of blood,
  2. — Black Ares: to where, having gone,
  3. He shall leave off, flowing done,
  4. At the frozen-child’s-flesh food.
  1. King, king, how shall I beweep thee?
  2. From friendly soul whatever say?
  3. Thou liest where webs of the spider o’ersweep thee
  4. In impious death, life breathing away.
  5. O me — me!
  6. This couch, not free!
  7. By a slavish death subdued thou art,
  8. From the hand, by the two-edged dart.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. No death unfit for the free
  2. Do I think this man’s to be:
  3. For did not himself a slavish curse
  4. To his household decree?
  5. But the scion of him, myself did nurse —
  6. That much-bewailed Iphigeneia, he
  7. Having done well by, — and as well, nor worse,
  8. Been done to, — let him not in Haides loudly