Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. A drop of the crocus-dye:
  2. Which makes for those
  3. On earth by the spear that lie,
  4. A common close
  5. With life’s descending sun.
  6. 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!
  7. Of the craft-killing cauldron I tell thee the case!
CHOROS.
  1. I would not boast to be a topping critic
  2. Of oracles: but to some sort of evil
  3. I liken these. From oracles, what good speech