Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. 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
  4. To mortals, beside, is sent?
  5. It comes of their evils: these arts word-abounding that sing the event
  6. Bring the fear’t is their office to teach.
KASSANDRA.
  1. Ah me, ah me —
  2. Of me unhappy, evil-destined fortunes!
  3. For I bewail my proper woe
  4. As, mine with his, all into one I throw.
  5. Why hast thou hither me unhappy brought?
  6. — Unless that I should die with him — for nought!
  7. What else was sought?
CHOROS.
  1. Thou art some mind-mazed creature, god-possessed:
  2. And all about thyself dost wail
  3. A lay — no lay!
  4. Like some brown nightingale
  5. Insatiable of noise, who — well-away! —
  6. From her unhappy breast