Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Even from the furrows’ yield for yearly use
  2. Has done away with famine, the disease;
  1. But blood of man to earth once falling-deadly, black —
  2. In times ere these, —
  3. Who may, by singing spells, call back?
  4. Zeus had not else stopped one who rightly knew
  5. The way to bring the dead again.
  6. But, did not an appointed Fate constrain
  7. The Fate from gods, to bear no more than due,
  8. My heart, outstripping what tongue utters,
  9. Would have all out: which now, in darkness, mutters
  10. Moodily grieved, nor ever hopes to find
  11. How she a word in season may unwind
  12. From out the enkindling mind.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Take thyself in, thou too — I say, Kassandra!
  2. Since Zeus — not angrily—in household placed thee