Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  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,
  5. The unhappy! And now, by Kokutos and Acheron’s shore
  6. I shall soon be, it seems, these my oracles singing once more!
CHOROS.
  1. Why this word, plain too much,
  2. Hast thou uttered? A babe might learn of such!
  3. I am struck with a bloody bite — here under —
  4. At the fate woe-wreaking
  5. Of thee shrill shrieking:
  6. To me who hear — a wonder!
KASSANDRA.
  1. Ah me, the toils — the toils of the city
  2. The wholly destroyed: ah, pity,
  3. Of the sacrificings my father made
  4. In the ramparts’ aid —