Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Unceasing assault —
  2. On the Race, raise a shout
  3. Sacrificial, about
  4. A victim — by stoning —
  5. For murder atoning!
CHOROS.
  1. What this Erinus which i’ the house thou callest
  2. To raise her cry? Not me thy word enlightens!
  3. To my heart has run
  4. A drop of the crocus-dye:
  5. Which makes for those
  6. On earth by the spear that lie,
  7. A common close
  8. With life’s descending sun.
  9. Swift is the curse begun!
KASSANDRA.
  1. How! How!
  2. See — see quick!
  3. Keep the bull from the cow!
  4. In the vesture she catching him, strikes him now
  5. With the black-horned trick,
  6. And he falls in the watery vase!