Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. The feet indeed and the hands’ top divisions
  2. He hid, high up and isolated sitting:
  3. But, their unshowing parts in ignorance taking,
  4. He forthwith eats food — as thou seest — perdition
  5. To the race: and then, ’ware of the deed ill-omened,
  6. He shrieked O! — falls back, vomiting, from the carnage,
  7. And fate on the Pelopidai past bearing
  8. He prays down — putting in his curse together
  9. The kicking down o’ the feast — that so might perish
  10. The race of Pleisthenes entire: and thence is
  11. That it is given thee to see this man prostrate.
  12. And I was rightly of this slaughter stitch-man:
  13. Since me, — being third from ten, — with my poor father
  14. He drives out — being then a babe in swathe-bands:
  15. But, grown up, back again has justice brought me:
  16. And of this man I got hold — being without-doors —