Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. Much slaughter of grass-fed flocks — that afforded no cure
  2. That the city should not, as it does now, the burthen endure!
  3. But I, with the soul on fire,
  4. Soon to the earth shall cast me and expire.
CHOROS.
  1. To things, on the former consequent,
  2. Again hast thou given vent:
  3. And ’t is some evil-meaning fiend doth move thee,
  4. Heavily falling from above thee,
  5. To melodize thy sorrows — else, in singing,
  6. Calamitous, death-bringing!
  7. And of all this the end
  8. I am without resource to apprehend
KASSANDRA.
  1. Well then, the oracle from veils no longer
  2. Shall be outlooking, like a bride new-married:
  3. But bright it seems, against the sun’s uprisings
  4. Breathing, to penetrate thee: so as, wave-like,