Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Has struck man’s ship against a reef unseen.
  2. Now, when a portion, rather than the treasure,
  3. Fear casts from sling, with peril in right measure,
  4. It has not sunk — the universal freight,
  5. (With misery freighted over-full)
  6. Nor has fear whelmed the hull.
  7. Then too the gift of Zeus,
  8. Two-handedly profuse,