Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. But ancient Arrogance delights to generate
  2. Arrogance, young and strong mid mortals’ sorrow,
  3. Or now, or then, when comes the appointed morrow.
  4. And she bears young Satiety;
  5. And, fiend with whom nor fight nor war can be,
  6. Unholy Daring — twin black Curses
  7. Within the household, children like their nurses.
  1. But Justice shines in smoke-grimed habitations,
  2. And honours the well-omened life;
  3. While, — gold-besprinkled stations
  4. Where the hands’ filth is rife,
  5. With backward-turning eyes
  6. Leaving, — to holy seats she hies,
  7. Not worshipping the power of wealth
  8. Stamped with applause by stealth:
  9. And to its end directs each thing begun.
  1. Approach then, my monarch, of Troia the sacker, of Atreus the son!
  2. How ought I address thee, how ought I revere thee, — nor yet overhitting
  3. Nor yet underbending the grace that is fitting?
  4. Many of mortals hasten to honour the seeming-to-be —