Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Love’s spirit-biting flower.
  2. But — from the true course bending —
  3. She brought about, of marriage, bitter ending:
  4. Ill-resident, ill-mate, in power
  5. Passing to the Priamidai — by sending
  6. Of Hospitable Zeus —
  7. Erinus for a bride, — to make brides mourn, her dower.
  1. Spoken long ago
  2. Was the ancient saying
  3. Still among mortals staying:
  4. Man’s great prosperity at height of rise
  5. Engenders offspring nor unchilded dies;
  6. And, from good fortune, to such families,
  7. Buds forth insatiate woe.
  8. Whereas, distinct from any,
  9. Of my own mind I am:
  10. For ’t is the unholy deed begets the many,
  11. Resembling each its dam.
  12. Of households that correctly estimate,
  13. Ever a beauteous child is born of Fate.