Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Keeps moaning Itus, Itus, and his life
  2. With evils, flourishing on each side, rife.
KASSANDRA.
  1. Ah me, ah me,
  2. The fate o’ the nightingale, the clear resounder!
  3. For a body wing-borne have the gods cast round her,
  4. And sweet existence, from misfortunes free:
  5. But for myself remains a sundering
  6. With spear, the two-edged thing!
CHOROS.
  1. Whence hast thou this on-rushing god-involving pain
  2. And spasms in vain?
  3. For, things that terrify,
  4. With changing unintelligible cry
  5. Thou strikest up in tune, yet all the while
  6. After that Orthian style!
  7. Whence hast thou limits to the oracular road,
  8. That evils bode?
KASSANDRA.
  1. Ah me, the nuptials, the nuptials of Paris, the deadly to friends!
  2. Ah me, of Skamandros the draught
  3. Paternal! There once, to these ends,
  4. On thy banks was I brought,