Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Speak thou, instead of voice, with hand as Kars do!
CHOROS.
  1. She seems a plain interpreter in need of,
  2. The stranger! and her way — a beast’s new-captured!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Why, she is mad, sure, — hears her own bad senses, —
  2. Who, while she comes, leaving a town new-captured,
  3. Yet knows not how to bear the bit o’ the bridle
  4. Before she has out-frothed her bloody fierceness.
  5. Not I — throwing away more words — will shamed be!