Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Justly presageful of a fate behind.
  2. But I pray — things false, from my hope, may fall
  3. Into the fate that’s not-fulfilled-at-all!
  1. Especially at least, of health that’s great
  2. The term’s insatiable: for, its weight
  3. — A neighbour, with a common wall between —
  4. Ever will sickness lean;
  5. And destiny, her course pursuing straight,
  6. Has struck man’s ship against a reef unseen.
  7. Now, when a portion, rather than the treasure,
  8. Fear casts from sling, with peril in right measure,
  9. It has not sunk — the universal freight,
  10. (With misery freighted over-full)
  11. Nor has fear whelmed the hull.
  12. Then too the gift of Zeus,
  13. Two-handedly profuse,
  14. Even from the furrows’ yield for yearly use
  15. Has done away with famine, the disease;
  1. But blood of man to earth once falling-deadly, black —
  2. In times ere these, —