Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Who may, by singing spells, call back?
  2. Zeus had not else stopped one who rightly knew
  3. The way to bring the dead again.
  4. But, did not an appointed Fate constrain
  5. The Fate from gods, to bear no more than due,
  6. My heart, outstripping what tongue utters,
  7. Would have all out: which now, in darkness, mutters
  8. Moodily grieved, nor ever hopes to find
  9. How she a word in season may unwind
  10. From out the enkindling mind.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Take thyself in, thou too — I say, Kassandra!
  2. Since Zeus — not angrily—in household placed thee
  3. Partaker of hand-sprinklings, with the many
  4. Slaves stationed, his the Owner’s altar close to.
  5. Descend from out this car, nor be high-minded
  6. And truly they do say Alkmené’s child once
  7. Bore being sold, slaves’ barley-bread his living.
  8. If, then, necessity of this lot o’erbalance,
  9. Much is the favour of old-wealthy masters:
  10. For those who, never hoping, made fine harvest